Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Doug Larson

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Donna Brazile

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

Douglas Coupland

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

Douglas Coupland

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

Douglas William Jerrold

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Dorothy Day

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy L. Sayers

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Donald Rumsfeld

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

Don Marquis

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dalai Lama

One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

Dion Boucicault

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Diogenes

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Derek Walcott

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Dag Hammarskjold

Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

Claude Shannon

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Cormac McCarthy

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Daphne du Maurier

We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass.

Dante Alighieri

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

Dante Alighieri

He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

Dante Alighieri

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Dante Alighieri

Everywhere is here and every when is now.

Dan Quisenberry

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.