Top 490 My Time Quotes

I don’t like new people coming around me. I’m going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.
Prodigy
As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man

As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.
Glenn Hoddle
My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who’s been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He’s always scared me, I think he’s evil – he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.
Arthur Potts Dawson
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Natalie Babbitt
I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.
Wong Kar-wai
My time with Ferrari was wonderful. I have found friends and had experiences that I would not want to be without.
Michael Schumacher
I have worked very, very hard over the course of my time in Congress to make sure that everybody does get access to quality, affordable, accessible health care.
Joe Kennedy III
You know, I’ve sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
Dan Aykroyd
During my time with Maccabi Tel Aviv, I learned how to play better by using my head. I was given the chance of playing a more forward position so I could score many goals. In short, I have become a player who can score goals and win games.
Eran Zahavi
I’m really kind of boring – I’d rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
Mandy Moore
I spent my time, growing up, essentially between two things: technology and retail. I was fascinated by selling and loved the idea of making a profit, but I also spent a lot of time on technology.
Tobias Lutke
In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
Larry Wilmore
In my relationship with God, I’ve learned that if I follow a ‘formula’ for how I spend my time with Him, then I’m just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.
Joyce Meyer
When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it’s one of my big regrets.
Roger Moore
I don’t want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, ‘Yeah, I’m producing.’ It gave me a fresh vibe – inspiring in a different way.
Sean Paul
Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
Sandra Cisneros
I’m not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.
Brian Dennehy
El Perro del Mar sort of accompanied my time at ‘SNL.’ To concentrate and focus, I would play the bass to one of her songs from her third album.
Fred Armisen
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I was able to turn my hobby into my profession, and I am thankful for that. But I have other interests beside football, and I can devote my time to them now.
Michael Ballack
I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn’t want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.
Aung San Suu Kyi
People perceive me as a commodity. They just don’t think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they’re asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don’t have 1,000 five minutes to give.
Stephen Jay Gould
I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.
Maynard Webb
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
Jessamyn West
I’ve worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it’s my duty – my responsibility – to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I’ve gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.
Erin O’Connor
Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don’t want to miss any of my time with them.
Josie Bissett
I love fast breaks, and I love playing full-court basketball, but offensively in the half court, I kind of take my time, let guys cut, and let the defense move. Then, if I have a move, I’ll go. If not, I’ll just hand it off to a teammate.
Mohamed Bamba
I’m a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it’s dangerous if I’m seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.
Abi Morgan
When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.
Jean Alesi
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That’s a big one, the napping on demand!
Maria Semple
My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is ‘Ice Age.’ That’s fine with me because pretty soon they’ll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.
Denis Leary
I won’t talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It’s a waste of my time. If they don’t feel ‘called’ – why in God’s name would you do this?
Jim Harrison
I have made many memories during my time with Chelsea,

I have made many memories during my time with Chelsea, which I will take with me into my next challenge.
Maurizio Sarri
I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn’t want to be a minister.
John Green
I never thought of coaching the Indian cricket team. I was given the offer… BCCI secretary Amitabh Choudhury and MV Sridhar came to me and requested me to think on the offer. I took my time and then applied for the position.
Virender Sehwag
I didn’t know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
Leonardo DiCaprio
I want true love, because I don’t have so much time, and I want to spend my time with the right girl.
Bill Kaulitz
I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
Tammy Blanchard
As I’ve learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
Marco Rubio
In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I’ve seen a growing sense of unity and mission.
George Carey
I started out splitting my time between the Kansas City and St. Louis comedy scenes, which both had bluer sensibilities than other cities that I’ve worked.
Nikki Glaser
I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don’t have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.
John Piper
‘Hollyoaks’ really is such a great place to work, and there was nothing bad whatsoever about my time there. I loved my job, I loved everybody that I worked with, and I was blessed with great story lines.
Rachel Shenton
I’m not proud that, in my time, I’ve tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.
Faith Salie
One report said that since my time on the run I’ve had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I’ve been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!
Ronald Biggs
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I’m mad.
Hilary Mantel
I lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night.
Sturgill Simpson
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players – King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that… I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.
Clint Eastwood
I’m not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That’s wasted energy.
Charles Barkley
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children’s literature. This has been the bane of my life.
Sonya Hartnett
My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, ‘What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?’ And writing was that for me.
Jesmyn Ward
I’m real big on making sure everything is right and taking my time.
Metro Boomin
I’m Italian; I take my time. We’re not really fast. We’re very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I’m so curious as to what’s next!
Monica Bellucci
I take the toughest challenges and fight against the best women. With that attitude, I will always be doing something big. I’m light-years ahead of my time.
Claressa Shields
I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That’s how I live my life.
Sean Lennon
My dad kicked me out of the house when I was 18. I was supposed to go to community college. I wasn’t really into going because I wanted to do stand-up, and he felt I was wasting my time.
Jermaine Fowler