Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna May Wong

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...

Angela Davis

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Alvin Ailey

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

Anne Sexton

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

Anne Sexton

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

Anna Freud

It is there all the time.

Andre Weil

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .

Andre Maurois

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Ambrose Bierce

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

Ambrose Bierce

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Ambrose Bierce

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

Ambrose Bierce

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

Ambrose Bierce

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Ambrose Bierce

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Ambrose Bierce

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Anthony Hopkins

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

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.