Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Ernest Hemingway

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Eudora Welty

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

Erwin Schrodinger

For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Florynce Kennedy

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

Fiona Apple

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

Fernand Braudel

For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.

Henry Miller

The cancer of time is eating us away

Henry Miller

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Henry Miller

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time wasted is a theft from God.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

My memories are not of time but of times.

James Branch Cabell

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

James Branch Cabell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

Jack Youngblood

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

James Freeman Clarke

In the spirit of faith let us begin each day, and we shall be sure to " redeem the time " which it brings to us, by changing it into something definite and eternal. There is a deep meaning in this phrase of the apostle, to redeem time. We redeem time, and do not merely use it. We transform it into eternity by living it aright.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....

James Gleick

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....

J. R. R. Tolkien

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Isaac Asimov

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

Immanuel Kant

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And let its meaning permeate Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.