Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.

Andrew Marvell

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Amy Poehler

It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Ann Brashares

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

Alphonse de Lamartine

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

Aeschylus

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

A. A. Milne

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

A. P. Herbert

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

A. Whitney Brown

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

The fly-by-nights don't want to spend any time with you.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

A. A. Milne

Time for a little something.

A. A. Milne

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

Aeschylus

Time cleanses what it touches over time.

Aeschylus

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

Aeschylus

But time growing old teaches all things.

Aeschylus

Time brings all things to pass.

Adrienne Rich

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

Agatha Christie

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Adam Young

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.

Adam Hochschild

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Abraham Cowley

His time's forever, everywhere his place.

Abraham Cowley

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Abraham Cowley

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Francine Prose

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

Francine Prose

I'm in a rage all of the time.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Laura Anne Gilman

You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.