I’m a big believer in the fact that life is too short to be serious all the time. So if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me—I’ll laugh at you

You need to spend most of your precious time finding great projects and scripts. They’re not hidden somewhere, but you need to struggle hard to get them.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

Three minutes’ thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

I still go up my 44 stairs two at a time, but that is in hopes of dropping dead at the top.

My inclination to go by the Air Express is confirmed by the crash they had yesterday, which will make them more careful in the immediate future.

These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious

Life is short, and we have but little time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the dark way with us. Be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

I always find it often useful and wonderful that how when you are putting it down on paper with a clear statement of the case, it turns out to be the most useful one every time.

You trust me or not but I feel that when the reason is actually right most of the time, usually like I do if the reason is right around nine out of ten times, then it will always be impotent

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Always keep in your mind that your soul always has some doors to open for you every time, no matter whether that door can be either upward or it can be the one inward also

Through my experience in my life, the number of people I ever come across most of them are only interested in one single thing, and that is actually how to escape at all times. But I don’t understand why people always want to run away or to escape from their things in life.

I still remember that since the time I been taking my slow pilgrimage around the world, I have been observing that it is just growing and gathering that mystery more and more in me.

Always keep in mind that there are times when you actually need to change your very self, and also, this change sometimes becomes a necessity for us to bring in ourselves rather than focusing more on changing the world around us.

In times of crisis, we often discover our true strength and resilience.

The love for baseball is a love that transcends time and place, connecting us to a rich history

Baseball is a journey of a thousand steps, each one as important as the last

Baseball is a timeless pursuit, where the past, present, and future all come together on the field

Baseball is a game of inches, where the smallest details can have the biggest impact

At best, I see the activity of president as coordinating an ensemble. On the dim days, it is progressively similar to that of a grasp connecting with the motor to impact forward movement, while taking more noteworthy contact

Words have the power to transcend time and space.

In literature, there is no such thing as wasted time. Every word counts.

A writer’s task is to capture the essence of a moment, to freeze time in the pages of a book

A good book is like a friend who challenges and comforts us at the same time.

A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader, a meeting of minds across time and space

Literature is a bridge between people, cultures, and times. It allows us to understand others and ourselves

For a long time – that is, for the vast majority of my grown-up life – I worked resolutely for the two-state arrangement notwithstanding incalculable disappointments, both with respect to the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.

I just distributed my first novel at 40 years old. Till at that point, I composed short stories

So with truth – there is a sure minute when one can say, this is reality, and here I put a speck, a stop, and I go to something else. A judge needs to stop a consideration. Be that as it may, for a student of history, there will never be a conclusion to the past. It can continue endlessly and on.

He respects owl, because you can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right.

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.

What day is it?” It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. My favorite day,” said Pooh.

In Yorkshire there is only the impetus of decline; the farms, the woolen mills, the dairy rounds wither, unravel and turn sour. The family wears out, stumbles politely, tripping over drink and ennui and a genteel surrender to the momentum of underachievement.

Have you ever stopped to think how weird it is that you have to take malaria pills to go to places where the population doesn’t take them, or that you get injections for yellow fever, cholera, typhus and hepatitis? None of the locals are immune to these things. They just suffer them. Drug companies can find prophylactics for rich Western holiday-makers, but not for people who live with disease the other 50 weeks of the year

New York bakes in a cess of gritty fug all summer, and congeals into gray slush all winter. There are a couple of days in the spring and autumn when the sky is madonna blue, the air crisp, and the light bright and sparkling, and that’s when they take the pictures and make the romantic comedies

The first lift shaft was built four years before the first lift. In 1852 Peter Cooper was constructing the Cooper Union building in New York with an elevator shaft, in the sure and certain knowledge that if he built it, the lift would come. That isn’t an act of impatience, it’s an act of faith, and it is, archetypally, the act of an American.

The definition of wit is a joke that doesn’t make you laugh.

I once saw ten minutes of The Big Breakfast and it was quite enough to convince me that television in the morning was like drinking in the morning: only real addicts could possibly do it without throwing up

You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us… It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man’s greatest efforts.

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby’s face.

Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

You had your time, you had the power

You’ve yet to have your finest hour

We are the champions

No time for losers

‘Cause we are the champions of the World

I’ve paid my dues

Time after time

Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band, they deserve the kind of success they’re getting

I don’t like the way my teeth protrude. I’m going to have them done, but I just haven’t had the time. Apart from that… I’m perfect.

What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I’m very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years’ time.

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

Yours (now I’m even losing my name – it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

If you treat people right, they will treat you right—ninety percent of the time.

We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of goodwill found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of reliance on governing functions. Most people don’t want to come to terms with that. It’s been proven over and over again that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, but most people don’t like to look at naked emperors. In the process of turning around to avert their eyes, they saw the discotheques and a few other things and latched onto them

Unbind your mind, there is no time

Sometimes I keep a car for only a week or two. I like the newest and the flashiest.

I’ve been in a treatment center for drinkin’. I stayed for two days, then escaped

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.

Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an ‘I’ without shame.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Bread, soup – these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit

Staring at each other, who’s gonna make the first move? Been doing our thing for a minute, and now both our hearts are in it

She got to have her own money Shout out to the girls that pay their rent on time

Let’s take our time tonight, girl Above us all the stars are watchin’ There’s no place I’d rather be in this world

Now I never, never get to clean up the mess I made, And that haunts me every time I close my eyes”

Yeah, you make me feel like I’ve been locked out of heaven For too long

There are times that I like to be sad

Some people are making music just for numbers and views

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

The last time I cry was when I won the champions. It was one of the best moments in my life.

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

I’m always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I’ve always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that’s reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that’s the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18 I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

I’m in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I’m afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

He’s six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you’d say he has everything.

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray.

If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

I am not a big crier. But I’d say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I’d say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.

I studied every move, I became fascinated by thinking what I could have done differently. And I take that approach now as a professional. I am on it, all the time, never stop thinking, learning. You don’t get to be world champion unless you do that.

I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it’s time to sleep.

Training to me isn’t about a set time at the gym – I move at all times of the day and night.

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don’t eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Seems like people get obsessed about times and numbers and weights and that – I’m obsessed with winning.

It makes a difference when you’ve got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.

I believe in working harder and putting in the time – being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that’s life.

I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I’m grateful every single day.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.