The Times Quotes

My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they're gonna have - they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to figure out how they gonna - you know, figure that one out.

I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.

I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.

I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

Making every record is a process full of tough times.

I love parties. I love a good time.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

I am fascinated with times past.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

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

I remember seeing Eddie Murphy RAW and seeing people laughing and having a good time and that was the same response I was getting so I thought I was on to something.

I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

I had a good time doing ["The Congressman"], and I hope that Treat [Williams] and I plan to go flying in his [private] jet!

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.