Alice Hoffman Quotes

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

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

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.