Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Mark Twain

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Niklaus Wirth

I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Marvin J. Ashton

We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

Marvin J. Ashton

How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

John Green

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

Patti Smith

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Ovid

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

Ovid

Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

Ovid

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Ovid

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

Ovid

All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

Ovid

Tempus fugit (time flies).

Mary Wollstonecraft

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Hunter Austin

The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.

Martha Graham

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

Marshall McLuhan

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

Marshall McLuhan

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Marshall McLuhan

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Marisa Tomei

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

Marguerite Young

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

Michel de Montaigne

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Michel de Montaigne

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Michel de Montaigne

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

Michel de Montaigne

Time steals away without any inconvenience.