Quotes About Time

But time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.

Twenty's good and proper." While Locke gestured for Calo and Galdo to help him set

The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

Age has a way of exaggerating the physical traits of those who live to feel its strains; the

Good evening, good evening, good evening!' yelled Epitalus. 'Good evening!' And then, as though anyone in the audience might conceivably remain unenlightened as to the quality or time of day: 'Good evening!' The string quintet ceased its humming and twanging

Advice," chuckled Doña Vorchenza. "The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

Morning's for sweat, and night's for regret

But time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think." He smiled down at Locke with real affection.

he learned anew how slowly time could crawl when there was some misery to dwell on.

In sum, we have attempted to show at least four major respects in which our exquisitely beautiful and precious Old Testament is a necessary source of much preaching by expositors of our time.

As we demonstrate how every text reflects aspects of or needs for God's grace that are made plain in the fullness of time, we honor the unity of Scripture, God's progressive plan of redemption, and the many ways that the Holy Spirit coordinates the whole Bible to reveal the grace of the Savior and the futility of any other hope.

We're technically living about eighty milliseconds in the past because that's how long it takes our brain to process information.

the 1st of January on a leap year falls on a Sunday, the months of January, April and July will each have a Friday the 13th. In the 20th century, this happened in 1928, 1956 and 1984. In the 21st century, this will happen four times in 2012, 2040, 2068, 2096.

I guess the basic difference is that animation is sequential in time but in spatially juxtaposed as comics are. Each successive frame of a movie is projected on exactly the same space--the screen--while each frame of comics must occupy a different space. Space does for comics what time does for film!

The panel acts as a sort of general indicator that time or space is being divided. The durations of that time and the dimensions of that space are defined more by contents of the panel than by the panel itself.

Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which can only exist in time--sound.

A slightly tipsy mathematician got home at 3 a.m. His wife was upset and yelled, "You're late! You said you'd be home by 11:45." The mathematician replied, "No, I am precisely on time. I said I'd be home by a quarter of twelve.

The dentist says to his patient, "I have to pull this tooth, but don't worry, it will take just five minutes." The patient asks, "And how much will it cost?" The dentist replies, "A hundred dollars." "A hundred dollars for just a few minutes' work?" the patient asks. "I can pull it more slowly if you like.

Q: What dog keeps the best time? A: A watch dog.

Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am. I worked a full-time regular job while I wrote my first novels, scraping out an hour here or there in evenings and weekends. That's how I've become a successful author.

Time passes and human greed outlasts even the eternal.

Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am.

We are all born, and we all die—be it from age and illness, like your people, or from battle, like mine. Everything between is what you make of it," Grimnir said.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time?