Time Consumption Quotes

I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.

Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

With 'World of Warcraft,' I like the potential for wasting time.

I think the most significant change in my life is the decision to do a series. An hourlong dramatic television series on a broadcast network swallows you and chews you up and refuses to spit you out. You're making a decision that's going to be a profound and significant impact on the practical aspects of your life.

The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

... is so slow he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long.

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.