Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.
Dolly PartonThe waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?
John MuirBetter three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William ShakespeareMy theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma BombeckOne today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin FranklinHow did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. SeussWe need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.
Michelle ObamaIn the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. NixonFor awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSomebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest HemingwayEvery day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.
Jocko WillinkTomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Marcus AureliusI do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.
Isaac NewtonYes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.
Conor McGregorTime is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin DisraeliI have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert FrostDo not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard ShawIt takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. RooseveltTo have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise PascalIf a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CummingsI’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.
Adam SandlerWork as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin FranklinIt is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen HawkingPeople who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
John C. MaxwellIt is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David ThoreauI was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
Stephen HawkingPoetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. MenckenI don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
Margaret AtwoodI have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
Stephen HawkingAnd were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert FrostThe figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert FrostI must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda MeirWhen I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.
Charles BukowskiThe present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise PascalTime is the least thing we have of.
Ernest HemingwayBy the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard M. NixonTime is bunk.
Douglas AdamsWriting free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert FrostIn twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
Alice MunroEvery age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul SartreThe future is purchased by the present.
Samuel JohnsonHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
Emily DickinsonI wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Maya AngelouThe years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George EliotIt’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
Keanu ReevesBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SocratesOn the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.
Ernest HemingwayI like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
E. E. CummingsEmploy thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin FranklinI’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.
Clint EastwoodRomance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar WildeBefore I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson MandelaIt is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
Vivienne WestwoodYou can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.
Muhammad AliProse is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest HemingwayAnd poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen KingIt is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John RuskinOne of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.
Michelle ObamaI think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?
Adam Sandler