Only Time Quotes - Page 9

• The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Beautiful, Perception, Lightning

  Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.119

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• The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.

  Cat Deeley

  Dad, Dancing, Funny Wedding

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• The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

  Jose Bergamin

  Men, Thinking

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• Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Illusion, Eternity

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• Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

  Jimmy Buffett

  Time Will Tell, Time Well Spent, Wells

  Song: Trip Around The Sun, Album: License to Chill, 2004

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• When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

  Sofia Coppola

  Inspirational, Motivational, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Future, Past, Two

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Sloth, Pills

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• I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Legislature, Beaten

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• The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.

  John Waters

  Karma, Normal, Aids

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

  Victoria Beckham

  Girl, Writing, People

  "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

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• The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up to me on the boardwalk of Ocean City, New Jersey and said, "You look a lot like that guy from computer ads" and I said, "There is a reason because I am that guy," and the guy looked at me for a minute, laughed and said, "That's a funny joke, but you really do look like him." He thought I was not me.

  John Hodgman

  Ocean, Cities, Guy

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

  Michael Feinstein

  Long, Important, Significant

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• You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

  Steve Guttenberg

  Home, Playing Yourself, Acting

  "Steve Guttenberg on Police Academy, Party Down, and turning down Sharknado". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2015.

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• I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man comic that I inked for her for DC and she said it was the only time that she'd ever had anyone ink her. Everyone else put in their own personality and changed it. In fact, bless her heart, she said if she were still doing Brenda Starr, she'd have me ink it.

  Mike Royer

  Nice, Heart, Men

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

  Emma Stone

  Air, Flip, Helping

  "Emma Stone Talks Panic Attacks And Crying Around Her Idols". Stylist Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

  Susan George

  America, Wealth, Investment

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• Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ocean, People, Water

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Pain, Children

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• The only time I really get afraid is when something is affecting my family. But even then, I start to think about the Bible and the passage that says "you should fear no one, fear no man, but only God," and I feel better.

  Vernon Davis

  Feel Better, Men, Thinking

  "Vernon Davis ‘The NFL Playoffs’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 15, 2012.

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• The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Time, Enlightenment, Watches

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• I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

  Bill Johnson

  Vision, Fasting, Watches

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• The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.

  William Boyd

  Taken, Family And Friends, World

  William Boyd (2008). “Bamboo”, p.350, A&C Black

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• It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

  Michael Heseltine

  Reading, Remember, Prime

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