Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Phillips

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

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.

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.

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 can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Iris Murdoch

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Dick Cheney

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

David Satcher

We don't have a lot of time with inhalation anthrax,

Orla Brady

Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!

When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

Becky G

Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

Tim Huelskamp

I've learned a long time ago if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be pleading the Fifth, and most Americans get it.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.