You come most carefully upon your hour

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point,…

— William Shakespeare

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts…

— William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late.

— William Shakespeare

Grief makes one hour ten.

— William Shakespeare

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint…

— John Hawkes

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled…

— John James Audubon

Three things must be carefully governed by you; time, money and yourself.

— Vikrant Parsai

Choose your mutations carefully...

— Mark Mothersbaugh

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think…

— David Herbert Donald

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

— Thomas Becket

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

— Hasidic

I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out…

— Kat Edmonson

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of…

— David Lange