Ray Davies Quotes

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers.

But dreams move on, if you wait too long.

I always joke that I'd like to be a cat 'cause then I'll have nine lives, and then I can do like everything. But that's really hard.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

Time and tide and hookers wait for no man.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.