Quotes About Days

I am glad that actors like Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan are doing justice to comedy. But in our days, nobody could beat Sunil Dutt and Amitabh Bachchan.

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.

I am nostalgic for those man-behind-the-curtain days when someone could get away with impersonating Kubrick because nobody had any idea what Kubrick looked like.

Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end.

For the past two days I've been on the river with an Oxford don who quotes Herodotus, a lovesick young man who quotes Tennyson, a bulldog, and a cat," I said. "I played it by ear.

The abyss of the past into which the world is falling. Everything vanishing as if it had never been. We would hardly wish to know ourselves again as we once were and yet we mourn the days.

This was the perfect day of his childhood. This the day to shape the days upon.

Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.

Do you think of yourself as an atheist. God no. Those were the good old days.

In the days to come the frail black rebuses of blood in those sands would crack and break and drift away so that in the circuit of few suns all trace of the destruction of these people would be erased.

the witch softly, 'for the dragons' days are numbered

Every individual should, by nature, have his extraordinary points. But nowadays, you may look for them with a microscope, they are so worn-down by the regular machine-friction of our average and mechanical days.

APPREHENSION AND all hours long, the town   Roars like a beast in a cave That is wounded there And like to drown;   While days rush, wave after wave On its lair.

But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy.

You admit that for the time being you do not want to accept communism 'as the solution for humanity.' But of course the issue is precisely to abolish the unproductive pretensions of solutions for humanity by means of the feasible findings of this very system; indeed, to give up entirely the immodest prospect of 'total' systems and at least to make the attempt to construct the days of humanity in just as loose a fashion as a rational person who has had a good night's sleep begins his day.

from Morgan Stanley, which was a pretty uptight firm in those days," recalled

Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find out how to make the most of them? Where was the quiet, where the promised rest?

Some day, we will all die, Snoopy. True, but on all the other days, we will not.

Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys...

This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

Night-time moon — glowing, muted, soft distant light to soothe our harshly lit days

And man watches his ingenious clock and his makeshift calendar and ticks off the days, wondering where time goes. Cherishing life, metering it out for himself in bits and pieces, hoping thus to control it.

If Time is trying not to be found he is excellent and terrible at it — the days hide him so well — in our faces he is buried but not concealed he marks his territory...