Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Morse Earle

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

Alice Meynell

From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

Alphonse de Lamartine

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

Aeschylus

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

A. A. Milne

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

Kevin Whately

When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.

Rosa DeLauro

What we should be is on the people's timetable and not on a congressional timetable.

Alexander Pope

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Alexander Pope

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

Alexander Pope

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

Alex Van Halen

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Alex Winter

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

Alex Haley

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

E. M. Forster

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

Douglas Merrill

Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.

Doug Larson

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Doug Larson

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Donna Brazile

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

Douglas Coupland

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

Douglas Coupland

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

Donald Trump

I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates.

Douglas William Jerrold

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Dorothy Day

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy L. Sayers

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Donald Rumsfeld

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

Don Marquis

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.