Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilaire Belloc

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

Heraclitus

All things flow, nothing abides.

Heraclitus

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Henry Ward Beecher

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Henry Ward Beecher

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Steven Wright

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

Steven Wright

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

Tom Stoppard

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Tobias Wolff

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Tobias Wolff

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

Joseph Hall

Perfection is the child of time.

Joyce Meyer

The right timing is not always our timing.

Kate Jackson

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

Miguel de Unamuno

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Mark Twain

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Niklaus Wirth

I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced this time and again. My hand seems devoid of myself, and I have nothing to do with what is happening. I just sit there watching in a state of awe and wonderment. And it just flows out by itself.

Pearl S. Buck

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Pearl S. Buck

One faces the future with one's past.

Pearl S. Buck

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Paula Yates

Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

John Newton

Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

John Ruskin

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

John Ruskin

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.

John Ruskin

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

John Steinbeck

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

John Steinbeck

Time is the only critic without ambition.

John Phillips

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

Mark Strand

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Nancy Astor

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Mortimer Adler

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.