Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wolfe

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

Steven Biko

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

Stephen Hawking

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Stephen King

Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

Stephen Hawking

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

Stephen Hawking

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Stephen Hawking

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Spike Milligan

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.

Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Thor Heyerdahl

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thomas Wolfe

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Thomas Wolfe

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

Robert A. Heinlein

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

Rick Bass

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

Tim O'Brien

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Tillie Olsen

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Time tries the troth in everything.

Steven Wright

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

Steven Wright

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

Tom Stoppard

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Thomas Campion

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.

Thomas Chalmers

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

Victor Hugo

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Vernon Howard

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

Richard Bach

Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

Robert Frost

One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

Robert Fulghum

I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

Robert Frost

The footpath down to the well is healed.

Robert Frost

I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.