Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Ginsberg

The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

Allen Ginsberg

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

Alison Sweeney

There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.

Allan Bloom

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Alison Gopnik

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

Alison Lurie

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Anthony Jeselnik

I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt be the bad guy in the joke; he couldnt upset people, really.

Ann Hood

In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or – perhaps most importantly – ourselves.

Ann Brashares

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

Ann Brashares

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

Ann Coulter

Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.

Andrzej Wajda

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

Andrzej Wajda

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Andy Andrews

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

Andy Andrews

It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present

Alan Cohen

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

Alan Cohen

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Alan Cohen

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

Pearl Jam

Where have they been the past 10 years?

We're doing nothing different than we have done in the past weeks. We've talked about what it takes to win. We're going to use our God-given talents and prepare mentally, and we're just going to go out and have fun.

Adora Svitak

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

Adam Phillips

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Adam Lambert

I'm very inspired by past music.

Adam Johnson

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

Adam Gopnik

The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.

Ada Leverson

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

Abraham Cowley

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Alex Smith

Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling.

Alex Pettyfer

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

Alberto Giacometti

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.