Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dylan Thomas

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

Dylan Thomas

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Douglas Adams

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

Douglas Adams

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Douglas Adams

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Douglas Adams

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Doris Lessing

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Donald Fagen

When you get a groove going, time flies.

E. B. White

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

Douglas Horton

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Douglas Coupland

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

Douglas Coupland

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

Douglas Coupland

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

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.

David Zucker

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

David Zucker

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

David Lloyd George

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Curtis LeMay

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

Confucius

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Daniel Webster

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

Dalton Trumbo

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

Dario Fo

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Dave Matthews

Look Here are we On this starry night staring into space And I must say I feel as small as dust Lying down here What point could there be troubling? Head down wondering what will Become of me Why concern we cannot see But no reason to abandon it Time is short but that's all right Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night Take your hands from your eyes, my love Everything must end some time Don't burn the day away

Dave Matthews

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

Dave Matthews

For a moment this good time would never end You and me Just wasting time I was kissing you You were kissing me love From good day into a moonlight

Dave Matthews

I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding

Dion Boucicault

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