Top 50 Time-Consuming Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Time-Consuming Quotes from famous people such as Heather Mac Donald, Maryanne Wolf, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Monica Galetti, Bianca Andreescu, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The enemy capture of female soldiers during a hot war will in fact provoke even greater than usual political pressure to quickly rescue them, if necessary overriding sounder but more time-consuming strategies.
Heather Mac Donald
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose principal mediums advantage speed, multitasking, and processing the next and the next piece of information.
Maryanne Wolf
When you’re in a play like ‘Kean,’ you can’t think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Extracting the meat from a whole crab is a time-consuming job – picking all the meat out of the legs, claws and body, double-checking for bits of shells, etc. But the flavour makes it worth it, and you get the additional bonus of the crab shells to make a flavourful bisque or stock as a base for other dishes.
Monica Galetti
I do creative visualisation techniques in the morning. It’s only 15 minutes. I used to do hours and hours of it, but I found that 15 minutes has really helped me, and it’s not time-consuming at all.
Bianca Andreescu
I know I don’t want to do another single-camera show. It’s so time-consuming. I did a couple of episodes of ‘Whitney’ as her mom, but I have been laying low. I love being with my kids and being a mom.
Jane Kaczmarek
With each film, I get more and more involved and it’s more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and people’s preconceived ideas. My characters have always stood for something, have always had an opinion, although they’ve never really rebelled.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Rap isn’t that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.
Iman Shumpert
I always get everyone prepared so there aren’t so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we’re shooting that day. It’s time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of ‘misunderstandings’ on set.
Tony Scott
Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation – including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators – are time-consuming and distracting.
Brett Kavanaugh
Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it’s too painful and time-consuming.
Randall Terry
I keep myself in shape with 40 minutes on my cross trainer every day. Doing that keeps me motivated and it isn’t too time-consuming.
Sarah Harding
I always look at ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail.’ They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. ‘Why don’t we just change it to coconuts?’ That’s part of my process.
Jonathan Krisel
If you believe in democracy, the overreach of leaders is a good reminder that vigorous public debate and time-consuming due process are not only more fair and more just, but that over the long term they usually produce better government, too.
Chrystia Freeland
Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
Zooey Deschanel
I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.
Tana Ramsay
I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I’m under a lot of stress.
Kate Micucci
I choose my films in a way that helps me do justice to all of them. Also, I like doing time-consuming films like ‘Baahubali’; it’s sometimes more rewarding than doing lots of small films.
Tamannaah
I think I was never home when I was directing, because you’re either prepping, shooting, or editing, and then acting at the same time. It’s really time-consuming, but it was great fun.
Miguel Ferrer
Making movies is time-consuming and it’s boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It’s like a big machine that moves slowly.
Eddie Murphy
It is easy to make stuff up – and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.
Lee Gutkind
I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.
Tana Ramsay
It’s a constant struggle in the comic community to be considered a book and to be considered art, but it’s just as time-consuming as any other art, and it’s just as powerful of a read as any book.
Lights
I’d always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming – and lucrative – that I didn’t pursue it.
Jerry Hall
I very much faced my mother’s death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
Rufus Wainwright
I don’t have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.
Etgar Keret
Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.
Steven Knight
Obviously I love the fans, and it’s beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying ‘Hi,’ shaking a hand, doing a high five. All that’s fine. But the posing for photos is so time-consuming and frankly a bit weird.
Miranda Hart
Obviously I love the fans, and it’s beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying ‘Hi,’ shaking a hand, doing a high five. All that’s fine. But the posing for photos is so time-consuming and frankly a bit weird.
Miranda Hart
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you’re working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
Carol Windley
Working is actually a pleasure. It’s just very time-consuming. It’s a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.
Helmut Jahn
My team and I tried cashing checks at check-cashing pla

My team and I tried cashing checks at check-cashing places and paying bills by money order. It’s incredibly inconvenient and time-consuming – it’s practically a part-time job just to manage and move your money.
Dan Schulman
Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.
Mike Crapo
I don’t think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn’t offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we’d steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.
Sebastian Junger
Rap isn’t that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.
Iman Shumpert
My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.
Ashley Wagner
You are thinking about the music, about the mathematics of it. It’s time-consuming and energy-consuming at the same time. That’s why I take my time off, my family time, as inspirational. I cool off.
Atif Aslam
I keep myself in shape with 40 minutes on my cross trainer every day. Doing that keeps me motivated and it isn’t too time-consuming.
Sarah Harding
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose principal mediums advantage speed, multitasking, and processing the next and the next piece of information.
Maryanne Wolf
Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.
Arlen Specter
I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most elaborate and time-consuming practical jokes I’ve ever done.
Sue Perkins
With each film, I get more and more involved and it’s more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and people’s preconceived ideas. My characters have always stood for something, have always had an opinion, although they’ve never really rebelled.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I didn’t see myself doing TV. It’s time-consuming.
Tyler Hilton
Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it’s too painful and time-consuming.
Randall Terry
I always look at ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail.’ They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. ‘Why don’t we just change it to coconuts?’ That’s part of my process.
Jonathan Krisel
Making movies is time-consuming and it’s boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It’s like a big machine that moves slowly.
Eddie Murphy
Extracting the meat from a whole crab is a time-consuming job – picking all the meat out of the legs, claws and body, double-checking for bits of shells, etc. But the flavour makes it worth it, and you get the additional bonus of the crab shells to make a flavourful bisque or stock as a base for other dishes.
Monica Galetti
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It’s going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them down and spread them in one area. Physically pick each book up, one by one. If the book inspires you, keep it. If not, it goes out. That’s the standard by which you decide.
Marie Kondo
If you believe in democracy, the overreach of leaders is a good reminder that vigorous public debate and time-consuming due process are not only more fair and more just, but that over the long term they usually produce better government, too.
Chrystia Freeland