Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Updike

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

Oscar Wilde

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Oscar Wilde

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Bud Selig

When this investigation is over ... that will be the time for me to make those kind of judgments.

Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Julia Roberts

I don't spend a lot of time in the mirror.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I eat all the time, and I run all the time.

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Mark Phillips

I don't think it's over. Time will tell.

Chauncey Billups

I wish the timing was a little different.

She always has some timely makes from the perimeter.

Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Fay Wray

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Fanny Burney

The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!

George Santayana

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

George Eliot

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Tim Ryan

He said, 'This is Tim Ryan's new congressional district,'

George Bernard Shaw

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

Eric Gagne

But I feel better than I usually feel at this time of spring. I'm just battling, trying to get some work in.

Jack London

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I think he's the right person at the right time in the right job.

H. G. Wells

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

Erin Morgenstern

Timing is a sensitive thing.

Christopher Fry

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Havelock Ellis

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Howard Nemerov

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

James Branch Cabell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

Frank Herbert

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.