My Time Quotes - Page 39

• I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

  John C. Reilly

  Believe, Enjoy, Working It

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2004.

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• I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

  Billy Wilder

  Funny, Eggs, Twenties

  "Fictional character: Lorraine". "Ace in the Hole", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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• I'm still trying to decide. It's a really difficult one because I really enjoy my time in the Air Force. And I'd love to continue it. But the pressures of my other life are building. And fighting them off or balancing the two of them has proven quite difficult.

  Prince William

  Fighting, Air, Two

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• My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

  Robert Winston

  East London, Firsts, Students

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• I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Men, Thinking, Disrespect

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

  Alber Elbaz

  Eye, People, Ends

  Interview with Leonie Barlow, www.thestyleinsider.co.nz. June 23, 2013.

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• I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.

  Luis von Ahn

  Watching Tv, Watches, Tvs

  "Profile: Luis von Ahn". Interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. June 30, 2009.

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Death, Wish, Fellowship

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Time, Pain

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• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Glasses, Breathing

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• I'm on my time with everyone.

  Kurt Cobain

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• Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

  William Hazlitt

  Dark, Water, Trying

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1100, Delphi Classics

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• I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Waste, Wasting My Time

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Attitude, Fall

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• personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

  Don Marquis

  Humble, Ambition, Cockroaches

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.256, Penguin

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• Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  My Own, Plenty

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• Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, People, Magic

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.223, Penguin

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• How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Believe, Simple

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Comforting, Comedian, Musician

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Feelings, Doubt

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• Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

  Mitch Albom

  Mirrors, People, Giving

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.128, Broadway Books

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• Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

  Henry Miller

  Stupid, Play, Feet

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• At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

  Agatha Christie

  Worst, Knows

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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