Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

Hattie Morahan

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

Howard Finster

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Adam Young

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.

Adam Hochschild

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Abraham Cowley

His time's forever, everywhere his place.

Abraham Cowley

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Abraham Cowley

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Albert Einstein

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

Albert Einstein

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

Algernon Charles Swinburne

For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.