Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Cocteau

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

George Carlin

When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?

George Carlin

You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people... I do... I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get past around a minute, minute-and-a-half, I gotta get the f*** outta there.

Gene Roddenberry

Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

Gene Tierney

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Garth Nix

More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

George Catlin

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

Christina Aguilera

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

Christian Marclay

It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.

Christian Lacroix

I am not nostalgic for the past.

Chris Rock

I took my AlDS test. You start reflecting... You start thinking about every nasty, skank-ass... It's like the movie Scrooge, and the Ghost of Pussy Past comes.

Chris Noth

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

Germaine Greer

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

Hayao Miyazaki

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.

Harry Hamlin

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

Gretchen Bleiler

For the past fourteen years, it's been my job to push past my boundaries and do things I never thought I could do, which is why it's been such a fulfilling career.

Gordon Brown

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.

Glen Cook

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Gladys Taber

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

Gerry Adams

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.

Geri Halliwell

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

Herbie Hancock

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Herbert Spencer

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Herman Melville

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

Herman Melville

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Herman Melville

To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.

Herman Melville

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

Henry David Thoreau

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

Henry David Thoreau

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Henry David Thoreau

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

Jeffrey Kluger

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.