Quotes About Yesterday

Yesterday's poets are today's detectives. They spend a life sniffing out the hundredth line, wrapping up a case, and limping exhausted into the sunset.

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.

And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Rachel turned and looked at him, and saw his tired gray eyes and his tired gray skin. If he would go away she could imagine it was yesterday.

Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most of the explanations we develop about how something happened yesterday have (like history in general) a high bullshit content.