Times Quotes

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

I've been operated on 13 times.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.

I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.