Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas William Jerrold

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Dorothy Day

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy L. Sayers

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Donald Rumsfeld

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

Don Marquis

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dalai Lama

One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

Dion Boucicault

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Diogenes

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Derek Walcott

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Andy Rooney

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.

Andy Warhol

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

Anastacia

Time makes me stronger Well,there's nothing more to say.

Anatole France

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Anais Nin

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Anne Carson

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Anne Carson

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Anne Frank

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Christopher Reeve

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Christopher Moore

It's like time travel only, you know, slower...

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Douglas Adams

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

Douglas Adams

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Douglas Adams

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Douglas Adams

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Doris Lessing

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Donald Fagen

When you get a groove going, time flies.

E. B. White

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

Douglas Horton

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.