Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anna Akhmatova

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Camus

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Albert Camus

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Albert Camus

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

Albert Camus

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Albert Camus

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Albert Camus

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Annie Dillard

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Annie Dillard

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Annie Dillard

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Annie Dillard

No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

D. H. Lawrence

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

D. H. Lawrence

The living moment is everything.

D. H. Lawrence

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

Conrad Hilton

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

Conrad Aiken

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

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.

Alexander Pope

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

Alex Winter

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

Alex Haley

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

E. M. Forster

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

Douglas Merrill

Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.

Doug Larson

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.