Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Delacroix

Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.

Eugene Delacroix

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Eugene Ionesco

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

Eugene Ionesco

We haven't the time to take out time.

Ernest Hemingway

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Ernest Hemingway

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Eudora Welty

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

Erwin Schrodinger

For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

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.'

Florynce Kennedy

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

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.

Fay Wray

That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

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!

Ezra Pound

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Eugene O'Neill

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Euripides

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

Euripides

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

Euripides

Youth holds no society with grief.

Francis Picabia

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Francis Bacon

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Francis Bacon

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Francis Bacon

Time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

Francis Bacon

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Francis Bacon

Time is the author of authors.

George Washington

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

George Santayana

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

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.

George Santayana

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.