Time Quotes by Patti Smith

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

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I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.

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The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

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I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

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These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

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I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

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The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

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I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long…

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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then…

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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come…

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“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol”

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“Well I haven't fucked much with the past, But I've fucked plenty with the future. - Babelogue ”

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Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

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The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the…

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I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time…

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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't…

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I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took…

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By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a…

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Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,…

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We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what…

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“These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and…

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“Actually, the only time I ever tried to cultivate being sexy was when I read Peyton Place. I was about sixteen and…

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Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads…

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The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

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“For a time Robert protected me, then was dependent on me, and then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of…

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Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means…

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Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time…

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I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I…

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To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is…

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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

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Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying…

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I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a…

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I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

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“For a time we considered buying an abandoned lighthouse or a shrimp trawler. But when I found I was pregnant we headed…

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I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was…

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I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the…

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Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer,…

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Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that…

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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved…

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