The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.
I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.
Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
It's going to take me less time to wreck Ben Shapiro than it took me to curl my hair.
We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?
My week beats your year.
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely.
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)
Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.
If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible.
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
