I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962
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Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCA watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951