I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it’s a yogurt, but a lot of times its leftovers from one of my wife’s dinners.

One that always stings is “Grow up.” And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It’s probably been said to me a few times

I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you’ll never see the same show twice, because I don’t like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

Oh, yeah, I’ve seen ‘Seinfeld’ 1,000 times.

I’ve had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I’ve had jokes stolen from me in the club when I’m next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I’ll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

Women put guys through tests all the time.

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.

To think that two and two are four And neither five nor three The heart of man has long been sore And long ’tis like to be.

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.

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person’s hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

Times have changed since Christ’s day. A rich man to-day who gives all he has to the poor is crazy. There is no discussion. Society has spoken.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do

Times of great change bring about moments of great opportunity.

If you’re making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she’d learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon

I’m La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

I think it’s more interesting to see people who don’t feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don’t feel anything at all for things I’m supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It’s not always like it is in the movies.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

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

You don’t know how many times I’ve sat in the theatre with a big thing of popcorn and been like, ‘Oh, that actor did that movie for a paycheck. He didn’t care.’ And I’m not going to do that.

I feel lonely at times, but I don’t want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I’m not the type of person who just does things to do them.

The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.

I’ve been told I couldn’t do it a billion times in the past few weeks but I’m so happy I’ve done the two-sport thing and proved you can do amazing things. I’m glad I’m standing here as a role model showing people you can achieve these things if you put the hard work in.

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

I love words. They’re fun. I don’t think any word can just be filler. There’s no room for it. It’s like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing ‘Harper Valley PTA’ and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

Being grown up kinda sucks and I’m really just missing the simple times.

There were times when I was just listening to albums for the hype of it. Some albums, I would just put it on in my car, and me and my friends would just drive, that we’d wild out to, get arrested to.

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

It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can’t pull out of it. But I don’t consider myself negative-negative. I’m positive-negative.

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.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals

These are the times that try men’s souls

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

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.

By 1927, only the richest 2 percent of Americans paid any federal tax at all.

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.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

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.

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

I don’t think we’re living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves – that is all.

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.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That’s an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

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.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

A son is the promise that time makes to a man, the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that the person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.

So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

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.

We have only one rule here – to act like a gentleman at all times.

Perilous times are before us. The whole world will be involved in perplexity and distress, disease of every kind will be upon the human family, and such ignorance as now prevails concerning the laws of health would result in great suffering and the loss of many lives that might be saved.

I’ve been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I’ve ever had.

Rick Mears is going to be spotting for me again, which is great, rick Mears has not only won four times but I will share my wins with Rick Mears, Rick Mears really helped.

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