Quotes About Time

I don't think she wants me to visit her." "It doesn't take long to get to Boston anymore," Dong Hyun said. "It takes about six hours by plane. Same amount of time as it's always taken." "Faster than getting from Venice to Echo Park in traffic," Dong Hyun said.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those who had known a significant time.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person and seeing them in the present and past, concurrently.

time. I suppose, relative to the length of your life, you feel as if you've known me a rather long time. Your perspective of time is really very warped, Maya. But I am old and soon, you'll forget you even knew me.

I suppose we drink and we smoke for the same reasons it is done elsewhere. We must fill our infinite days with something.

Methinks I have grown soft in my middle age. But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.

The real gift of the holiday season, A.J. thinks, is that it ends.

Macbeth has just heard the news that his wife had died, and he is giving the most famous soliloquy from the play, the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" speech.

What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,' " Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on." She

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered. "Style, no substance, my friend.

But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life. —

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered.

Ibland hittar böckerna inte fram till oss förrän tiden är mogen (s. 103).

She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn't had enough time to get good again.

Freda would grab his hand with her soft, old hand, and pat it gently, and say, "Life is long" or

Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa... but me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely th right time.

How is it that he gets to do so many things and he never changes? How is it that you have done so little and you change like a second hand on a clock?

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered.

My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn't had enough time to get good again.

Janine looks at her watch. "Janine looks at her watch," Daniel says. "She is bored with the old writer." Janine smiles. "Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.

There were so many kinds of love. And some of them were forever like the kind I had for Natty and for Leo. And other kinds? Well, you'd be a fool if you tried to guess how long they'd last. But even the ones that weren't necessarily everlasting were not without meaning" -Anya

No somos las cosas que acumulamos, adquirimos, leemos. Durante el tiempo que nos es dado vivir, somos solo amor. Las cosas que hemos amado. Las personas que hemos amado. Eso, es lo que realmente perdura.