Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.

Theodor Adorno

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

Margaret Mead

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Kin Hubbard

A loafer always has the correct time.

Michael Faraday

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

Michael Parkinson

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

Michael Drayton

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

Michael Drayton

When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.

Michael Drayton

WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.

Paul Fussell

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Paul Gauguin

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

Lillian Hellman

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

LeAnn Rimes

There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.

Laurence Olivier

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

Larry Wall

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

Lillian Smith

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Pablo Picasso

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over....

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time

Seth Godin

Soon is not as good as now.

Ravi Zacharias

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

Tobias Smollett

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.