Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wolfe

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

Steven Biko

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

Stephen Hawking

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Stephen King

Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

Stephen Hawking

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

Sam Levenson

I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

Roger Zelazny

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

Roger Zelazny

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

Susan Glaspell

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

Susan Glaspell

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

Stewart Brand

The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

Sonia Johnson

I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.

Stephen Sondheim

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

Stephen Sondheim

Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.

Stephen Sondheim

Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.

Sri Aurobindo

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

Sri Aurobindo

A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

Sri Chinmoy

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

Rick Bass

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

Tim O'Brien

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Tillie Olsen

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Time tries the troth in everything.

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.

Tim Ferriss

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Sam Huff

We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.

Stephenie Meyer

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Thomas Pynchon

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Thomas Heywood

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.