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“The first time you watch it you'll probably cry a bit. The second time you watch it you will probably think - boy that would be bad having a head like that being picked on - the third time you are probably thinking, er, how does he get his jumper on, er, then dunno probably bored of it the fourth time. But, but it's well worth watching.”
Karl Pilkington (born 1972) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Xfm 07 December 2002
“There was a time when evilness did not exist, and there will be a time when it will no more exist, whereas there was no time when virtue did not exist, and there will be no time when it will not exist. For the germs of virtue are impossible to destroy.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.”
Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Value Time: Our time on the earth is limited. There are so many things to do in this limited life span. So you have to manage your day and time wisely. Don’t be a fool to waste your precious time and life.”
Thích Nhật Từ (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But you may perhaps wonder why I explain Time without Motion, and will say, does not Time imply Motion? I answer no, as to its absolute and intrinsic Nature; any more than it does Rest. The Quantity of Time, in itself, depends not on either of them; for whether Things move on, or stand still; whether we sleep or wake, Time flows perpetually with an equal Tenor.”
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is time, and you must take it,to lay your hand on your dog's head as you walk past him lying on the floor or on his settle, time to talk with him, to remember with him, time to please him, time you can't buy back once he's gone”
George Bird Evans (1906–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The abstractions of Einstein's curved space and time gave rise to analogies and pictures that played a new explanatory role. Space and time gave way to space-time, visible light was augmented by images across the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum, and we realised that we could see back towards the apparent beginnings of time.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There has grown up a legend that the whole [[w:Petrov Affair|[Petrov] affair]] was a cleverly timed political scheme. This charge was made by Dr Evatt, the Leader of the Opposition, time after time, and was shown to be false time after time. But, as so frequently happens in life, the picturesque slander outlives the sober answer.”
Robert Menzies (1894–1978) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Measure of the Years (1970), Ch. 18: The Petrov Spy Case
“People who would normally have been at work now have time to go to a protest or a rally, and have time to think about why they have been struggling so much, and they are thinking, This actually isn’t right and I want to make time, and I have the ability to make time now and make my concerns heard...”
Opal Tometi (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I spend a lot of time with my family. Because I think it's part of my life. I think the time...long or short is not the most important. I think the most important is the quality time...quality time with family.”
Jet Li (born 1963) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Jet Li Interview Transcript in CNN (January 29, 2003)
“The next time you vote the next time you pay tax the next time you experience discrimination please don't wait for the time to become involved get a seat at the table.”
Njoki Susanna Ndung'u (born 1965) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2017 June 28
“Relevance itself is wealth, it's a quality and a value. Time buys you relevance, time buys you greatness, time buys you money. So you must stay in the vision and with time, you would reap the benefits.”
Bolanle Austen-Peters (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Locked up with freedom you don't want at all, in crowds there is no-one to turn to. Down, when you're high, is a long way to fall, and all the mistakes you won't learn through. Time is for ever, and no one can say time shows, love goes Only the fears as you go through the years till the last sand of time blows away. Till last sand of time blows away.”
John Miles (1949–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We might not be able to solve all the problems the farmers have […] but what we have been able to do is provide a holistic solution from the time of planting to the time of selling and taking it to the market, one text at a time, one farmer at a time.”
Jamila Abbas (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time matters! Time of reporting, the time of detection, and the time of declaration.”
Jane Aceng (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To keep your word. Be on time. Work hard. Gucci would even be at the studio before me. When it’s time to hit the studio and he gives us a time to come, he’ll be there before me every single time. That’s just how he is.”
Asian Doll (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Zuko saysThermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, so it doesn't bother you any more.”
Arnold Sommerfeld (disputed) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in: J.Muller, Physical Chemistry in Depth (Springer Science & Business Media, 1992), p. 1. No primary source is given in that book.
“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I 'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a happy, idyllic, old-fashioned childhood. Go to the town where I spent that childhood, you will not find my happy hours there. Yet they remain definite constituents of a divine reality about which true statements can still be made. My happy childhood was a gift my parents and the world offered to God.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love not! love not! ye hopeless sons of clay; Hope’s gayest wreaths are made of earthly flowers— Things that are made to fade and fall away, Ere they have blossomed for a few short hours.”
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In spring's own country, where the gardens blow, You faded, tender rose! For hours now past, Like butterflies departing, on you're cast The worms of memories to work you woe.”
Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) first seen 1748 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 2, p. 10. Compare: "Remember that time is money" in "Advice to a Young Tradesman" (1748) by Benjamin Franklin
“Rejoice, oh! grieving heart, The hours fly past; With each some sorrow dies, With each some shadow flies, Until at last The red dawn in the east Bids weary night depart, And pain is past.”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yoga does not consist in sitting cross-legged for six hours or stopping the beatings of the heart or getting oneself buried underneath the ground for a week or a month. These are all physical feats only. (What Is Actual Yoga)”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant hours, and elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the fresh'ning dew, and lovelier still, The pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even moderate resistance.”
Paul Schmidt (1899–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy" - by Zachary Shore - 2003
“The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to chimpanzees, reported in Jane Goodall: Primatologist and Animal Activist (2009) by Connie Jankowski, p. 13
“So far you have been treated as an officer and a gentleman, but don't think that this will go on if you don't behave better than you have done. You have two hours left in which to confess everything. If you don't, I shall hand you over to the Gestapo, who are used to dealing with such gangsters and criminals — you won't enjoy their methods a bit.”
Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Captain Sigismund Payne Best, as quoted in The Venlo Incident (1950) by Sigismund Payne Best, p. 41
“He's a meticulously hard worker and yet he'll roam the grass of his farm for hours and sometimes for days before he can bring himself to put a word on paper.”
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They discuss no strings. There, the people, they don’t discuss anything. You can’t beat the British, you’ve got to sit with them for hours. They talk about this, they talk about that.”
Jakaya Kikwete (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oft the hours From morn to eve have stolen unmark'd away, While mute attention hung upon his lips.”
Mark Akenside (1721–1770) said by 1770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adieu, for him, The dull engagements of the bustling world! Adieu the sick impertinence of praise! And hope, and action! for with her alone, By streams and shades, to steal these sighing hours, Is all he asks, and all that fate can give!”
Mark Akenside (1721–1770) said by 1770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The enchanted silence of the hours of dew.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant: 'wizard' for 'enchanted' in Collected Poems (1911)
“I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”
Edward Everett (1794–1865) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Abraham Lincoln on his Gettysburg Address (20 November 1863).
“’T is a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”
Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854) said by 1854 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cold winds sweeping the mountain-height, And pathless was the dreary wild, And ’mid the cheerless hours of night A mother wandered with her child: As through the drifting snows she press’d, The babe was sleeping on her breast.”
Seba Smith (1792–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm used to smoking some weed and getting the munchies. This nigga sold me some shit, had me looking at the refrigerator for three hours. I'm just in the kitchen, sitting on the stove, just... [Sits on stool, blanking staring]... I bet you there ain't shit in there, nigga. I bet you...”
Katt Williams (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Du Bartas
“People like Hillary Clinton, who put those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, so that our daughters — and sons — can dream a little bigger and aim a little higher. People like Joe Biden, who's never forgotten where he came from and never stopped fighting for folks who work long hours and face long odds and need someone on their side again.”
Michelle Obama (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview in Page, May 1999
“Ye rigid Plowmen! Bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plow deep and straight with all your powers!”
Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Plow, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); reported as The Plough in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 18-19.
“Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.”
Nicole Lapin (born 1984) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Wired Magazine. (26 June 2007)
“Dear, I took these trackless masses Fresh from Him who fashioned them; Wrought in rock, and hewed fair passes, Flower set, as sets a gem.Aye, I built in woe. God willed it; Woe that passeth ghosts of guilt. Yet I built as His birds builded — Builded singing as I built.All is finished! Roads of flowers Wait your loyal little feet. All completed? Nay, the hours Till you come are incomplete.”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm often amazed at the way politicians – who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks – are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.”
Simon Hoggart (1946–2014) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don't try and drag God in by the back door" The Guardian (27 June 1998), p. 38
“Nowadays, everyone seems to be emotionally dead, like zombies in pinstripe suits. Trudging to work each day to make a living, queueing up at McDonalds for their daily fuel intake, coming home to vegetate in front of the TV for hours on end. (22 October 2004)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open may survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An interviewer had researched Lyttelton's other interests and asked him about "orthinology" (sic). Lyttelton said that he kept a straight face and answered the question but 24 hours later thought of what he should have replied: "Oh, you mean word-botching".”
Humphrey Lyttelton (1921–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BBC Radio 4 Midnight News (26 April 2008)
“The cool thing about my character was that it’s not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I’ve seen how he looks and it’s really cool.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (born 1981) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 10, 2008, on the Cobra Commander role