Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Wood

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

Thomas S. Monson

He who gives money gives some, he who gives time gives more, and he who gives of himself gives all.

Thomas Sowell

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Robert McNamara

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Kennedy

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Robert Greene

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

Robert Baden-Powell

Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."

Richard M. Nixon

Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Ric Ocasek

If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight

Rich Mullins

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

Richard LaGravenese

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

Tupac Shakur

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Tupac Shakur

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Roseanne Barr

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

Ronnie Wood

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Sara Teasdale

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Sara Teasdale

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Samuel Rutherford

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

Samuel Johnson

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

Wallace Stevens

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

Virgil

Time bears away all things.

Vincent Canby

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

William Hogarth

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

Will Wright

Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

Walter Lang

Time was God's first creation.

Walter Lippmann

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Voltaire

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

William Feather

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.

William Butler Yeats

What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.