Top 490 My Time Quotes

When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.
Brian Reitzell
We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.
Kaya Scodelario
As governor, I’m spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
Jack Markell
I’ve met a lot of military men in my time. After they retire, they are still extremely game. They dress perfectly and have impeccable manners. They always end up as secretaries of golf clubs. I have great admiration for them.
David Jason
All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it’s nonstop.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
I am not one of the great journalists of my time.
Jane Pauley
If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I wouldn’t be able to write these kinds of song. I’d be too busy doing other things.
Jason Isbell
I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.
Katie Price
Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they’re the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I’ve met a few real villains in my time, and they weren’t the least bit sympathetic.
John Rhys-Davies
One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don’t make them any nicer.
Josh Charles
Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
Nancy Grace
I had an insanely long commute – New York to D.C. – when I worked at ‘National Geographic.’ I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn’t until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
Charles M. Blow
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time ‘cuz sometimes it’s just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
Ziggy Marley
In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase – I was surfing four days a week. I’m still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.
Jess Weixler
I look to see what things I enjoy doing and just try to figure out how to spend my time doing things that I enjoy.
Paul Buchheit
I never had worked in high fashion before, had never experienced it when I was a model before. I appreciate it, being able to work with such talented people; it feels like a gift now. I think for everyone everything happens at the right time, and this is my time.
Saskia de Brauw
Most of my time at Skype was spent doing new things.
Taavet Hinrikus
I remember my time growing up. It was a little bit difficult because the Soviet Union was broken.
Gennady Golovkin
I am proud of the work we have accomplished for the cit

I am proud of the work we have accomplished for the citizens of Northeast Florida and our nation during my time in Congress.
Ander Crenshaw
I’ve honed in on three questions that I ask myself when I’m evaluating where to spend my time. Is this something that I’m passionate about, is it purposeful, and will I have impact? And if I can’t answer ‘yes’ to all three questions, then I have to sit back and ask, ‘Is it really that important?’
Mindy Grossman
A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it’s obviously something I’m fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It’s what I would naturally be doing anyway.
Felicity Jones
I play the real instruments. I don’t waste my time with anything else.
Jason Newsted
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I’d like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general – criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don’t just want to give speeches; I’d like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.
Eric Holder
I am the CEO of HCL Corporation, and, of course, a large part of my time does get spent in HCL Corporation, whether it is in actively managing our investments or perhaps even the governance and accountability and really seeing the strategic direction forward for HCL Corporation.
Roshni Nadar
One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.
Yara Shahidi
I’ve done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I’ve done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and ‘K-9,’ and ‘Curly Sue’ and of course, ‘According to Jim.’ I think that my comedies have been the most popular.
James Belushi
The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That’s what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.
John David Washington
I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
Meg Whitman
I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn’t money; it’s my time.
Chris Paul
Italy during Shakespeare’s time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don’t waste my time on ignorance.
Shonda Rhimes
I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.
Hrithik Roshan
Trust me: I’ve been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.
Kajal Aggarwal
I spent my time in Serie C: that’s a league that grinds you down and spits you out.
Maurizio Sarri
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
Daniel Day-Lewis
The people that are close to me, the people that I spend most of my time with, they’re all really like-minded people.
Tim Kennedy
I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
Katherine Heigl
I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe – although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.
Mariella Frostrup
I always wear some make-up, even on quiet days when I am not doing so much with my time. I like to start using Dolce & Gabbana Perfect Finish Creamy Foundation as a base, as it’s lighter than air and doesn’t make me feel ‘caked.’
Monica Bellucci
I dedicate all my time to music. And I’m glad that it’s paying off in some ways.
Benjamin Clementine
As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.
Palmer Luckey
I don’t spend my time on farms. I don’t like the smell, to be honest.
Doja Cat
And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.
Stone Gossard
I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that’s good for me because I really got to take my time.
Tori Kelly
In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.
Juan Manuel Fangio
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Bobby Knight
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.
Tessa Thompson
I’m very about football and very about my job, which doesn’t get reported or won’t get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That’s I think what everybody else does, and that’s what I should do.
Johnny Manziel
I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there’s an awful lot you learn about yourself when you’re alone.
Kate Bush
I've been working in the music industry since I was 15

I’ve been working in the music industry since I was 15 years old, and I feel like I’ve always been ahead of my time.
Wynter Gordon
My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book – and probably will.
Suzi Quatro
I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn’t get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.
Darren Star
I really enjoyed my time in Germany but didn’t actually win anything.
Roberto Firmino
I have done my time living on the run. I’m British and I want to come home.
Gary Glitter
I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.
Nina Blackwood
I think the audiences in Chicago are really open. They’re engaged and eager, and they don’t feel cynical to me. Sometimes in New York, there’s a sense of, ‘Prove it to me; prove this is worth my time.’ I never felt that in Chicago.
Joe Mantello
I loved my time at OSU. It was unbelievable experience, and I’m definitely going to miss it.
Peter Uihlein