Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gardenhire

We've probably had too many at the same time this year who've struggled.

What can be done at any time is never done at all

We just started to see these things within the (past) hour. Our crews haven't had time to get there and find the cause.

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.

Douglas Coupland

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

Douglas Coupland

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

Douglas Coupland

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Douglas Coupland

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

Douglas Coupland

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

Adolf Hitler

Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide?

Adelaide Anne Procter

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Adelaide Anne Procter

See how time makes all grief decay.

Adelaide Anne Procter

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

Abraham Lincoln

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Ani Difranco

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

Andy Grove

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Andy Goldsworthy

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.

Andrew Marvell

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Amy Poehler

It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Ann Brashares

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

Alphonse de Lamartine

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!