Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alfred North Whitehead

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.