Charles Portis: Quotes about time

Charles Portis is American actor. Explore interesting quotes on time.

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“If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 75 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'

“Time just gets away from us.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 7, p. 215 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'

“Now the drummers did not rush out to grab Chaney or shoot him but instead scattered like poultry while Chaney took my father's purse from his warm body and ripped open the trouser band and took the gold pieces too. I cannot say how he knew about them. When he finished his thieving he raced to the end of the street and struck the night watchman at the stock barn a fierce blow to the mouth with his rifle stock, knocking him silly. He put a bridle on Papa's horse Judy and rode out bareback. Darkness swallowed him up. He might have taken the time to saddle the horse or hitched up three spans of mules to a Concord stagecoach and smoked a pipe as it seems no one in that city was after him. He had mistaken the drummers for men.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 1, pp. 14-15 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'