Quotes About Time

The sun gets better at setting.

Before, during, or after intercourse (the only three possible descriptions of time).

To guys like Mark, time was another weapon of the establishment, like alphabetical order. The great engineers, hackers - they didn't function under the same time constraints as everyone else.

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?

The antimony on their features was set on silvery fire by the intensity of the moon. And their bodies, solid and quivering and half-naked, were like ancient memories of a mystical time without boundaries when it was possible to enter the consciousness of a cornseed and foretell the harvest to come.

The historian deals with the past, but the true storyteller works with the future. You can tell the strength of an age by the imaginative truth-grasping vigour of its storytellers. Stories are matrices of thought. They are patterns formed in the mind. They weave their effect on the future. To be a storyteller is to work with, to weave with, the material of time itself.

I was born not just because I had conceived a notion to stay, but because in between my coming and going the great cycles of time had finally tightened around my neck. I prayed for laughter, a life without hunger. I was answered with paradoxes. It remains an enigma how it came to be that I was born smiling.

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don't try and press it down. Don't hide from it. Don't escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That's the way life goes.

Che strano, Creta evocava i ricordi. Come una macchina del tempo, la sua antichità severa esumava immagini e sentimenti dal passato. Ogni momento sembrava rapportarsi a qualcosa che era successo anni prima.

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1]

We think of pieces of music from a distance as blocks of time, but can we hold more than a second or two in our minds? And are we—with all music, to some extent—waiting around for some pinpointed extraordinariness to happen? Not

Crucially, the effect of repetition depends [...] on a relative change moving against a relative constant, which is really the key to life's riddle of time and gratification.

It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

I was called in about twenty minutes past the appointed time.

Given the age differences, I didn't spend a lot of time with my siblings, except when pressed into service as a babysitter.

When my turn came,

ANNA AND I spent the holidays in Washington, taking time off when we could.

I found that attitude remarkable. By this time the foreclosure epidemic had spread well beyond those who had knowingly purchased homes they could not afford.

because there is a lag between changes in monetary policy and their effect on the economy.

Like my father, I grew distracted and unhappy when I could not usefully occupy my time.

But developing a cost-effective program, without being unfair to borrowers who had faithfully paid their mortgages, would take considerable time.

With so much still unresolved and with time from the meeting already lost, I did not share much,

In fact, despite my understated style, I was as aggressive on this issue as on any during my time in Washington.