Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989
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My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810