Wow — what a time. Was that the first time? This is the last time. Such a long time. Time is money. It’s finally our time. Time to go. A time for every season under heaven. A time for loving, a time for hating, a time for war, a time for peace. Everything in its own time. No wine before its time. This is a bad time. I had a bad time. You’re wasting my time. We had the time of our lives. It’s time. E=mc². Space-time. In the nick of time. From the beginning of time. Until the end of time. A black hole is a singularity where there is no time.
Time is no friend of mine. Or to clarify, clock-time is no friend of mine, though lived-time is no problem at all. Clock time is vulgar time, government time, the people’s time. Clock time regulates trains to avoid crashes; it measures our pay; it is how we agree when the movie begins and the workday ends. Clock time is an artifice used to divide resources, and like money, for the fetishists among us, it seems palpably real. But clock time is not real time. In fact, clock time is variable with speed. The faster you go the slower it moves, until at the speed of light, relative to those of us who are stationary, clock time actually stops. But lived time, invariably paradoxical, is human time. Lived time is the agonizing eternity glimpsed in an instant before the first kiss. Lived time is the flash in which a long summer vacation vanishes, the blink of an eye of an entire life on your seventy-third birthday. Lived time is the time of our hearts that holds together all the reasonable arbitrary ticking nanoseconds, hours, days, years and decades we mistake for the time of our lives.
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1 - Duane
Universal time. Prime time. Thank you for a lovely time. Time is defined so that motion looks simple. Just in time. Time out. Planck time. Hubble time. Hammer time. Miller time. Making time. Doing time. Quality time. Wasted time. Greenwich Meridian time. Absolute time. Proper time. Timelike trajectories. What's the time? Does anybody really know what time it is? Daylight savings time. Quiet time. Time is up. Downtime. It's about time. Does anybody really care? Deep time. Record time. The first time. The last time. The arrow of time. A stitch in time. A rift in time. Overtime. Time and time again. Time has come today. Once upon a time. Is, was, and shall be are time's children. Tea time. Bed time.
Question: What time is it?
Yogi Berra: You mean right now?
2 - Mark Sahm
I half-expected all of the clocks from Pink Floyd's 'Time' to go off at the end of the the first paragraph. But valid points nevertheless.