Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kylie Jenner

Every time I get my makeup professionally done, I take a photo.

Kimberly Willis Holt

My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.

Kim Raver

As women in general, I don't think we take the time to find ways to take care of ourselves.

John Burnside

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

J. J. Abrams

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

Jessica Alba

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

Muriel Rukeyser

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

Frank Herbert

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Frank Herbert

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Frank Herbert

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

George H. W. Bush

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

H. G. Wells

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

H. G. Wells

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

H. G. Wells

If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

H. G. Wells

We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

H. G. Wells

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

H. G. Wells

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Jean de la Bruyere

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

Jean de la Bruyere

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

Jean de la Bruyere

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

Jean Baudrillard

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Jean Baudrillard

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Jay Kay

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

Jay Leno

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

Carla Gugino

When my friends have a health concern, they call me. Ive always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

James Hillman

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

Joseph Joubert

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joseph Joubert

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Joseph Joubert

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Joseph Joubert

Ask the young. They know everything.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

Milton Friedman

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.