Time quotes

“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.” David Bowie

“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?” David Bowie

“I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.” David Bowie

“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.” David Bowie

“I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.” David Bowie

“Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.” David Bowie

“I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.” David Bowie

“Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.” David Bowie

“What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.” David Bowie

“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.” John Rockefeller

“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.” Jon Stewart

“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.” Steven Spielberg

“Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.” Steven Spielberg

“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.” Steven Spielberg

“I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.” Steven Spielberg

“I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.” Steven Spielberg

“I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.” Steven Spielberg

“So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.” Steven Spielberg

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.” Charles Stanley

“The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.” Charles Stanley

“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.” Charles Stanley