Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.

Lord Chesterfield

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Byron

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

John Clare

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

M. Scott Peck

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

John Archibald Wheeler

Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.

Rebecca Sugar

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

Tim Ryan

You can't understand it until you're in it: the demands, the time and the commitments.

Matthew Arnold

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Matthew Arnold

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Matthew Arnold

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

Matthew Arnold

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Matthew Arnold

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

Matthew Arnold

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

Maya Angelou

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Max Beerbohm

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Matthew Hale

Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.

Matthew Hale

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

Clint Hurdle

I'm going to give him some time to work out of it.

Sasha Alexander

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

Kenneth Rexroth

A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.

Kathie Lee Gifford

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

Karl Marx

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.