Barbara Mandrell Quotes

I can't spend my whole day talking to people.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

Time is the least thing we have of.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

I just wish I had longer. It's very frustrating. As you know, to people over here, cities like [Washington] D.C. are iconic. We know them so well. It's very frustrating to be in one of them for 36 hours and have a show to do because you can't really do anything.

You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.

The 20-minute walk I take is better than the 3-mile run I never start. Having people over for take-out is better than never having people to an elegant dinner party.

We're running out of time.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

And nobody had told them that they were short on time.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.