Times Quotes

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Habit is ten times nature.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

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

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.