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Quotes About Time

They should put expiration dates on clothing so we men will know when they go out of style.
~ Garry Shandling
So as far as chests go, whatever you're going to have there, you'll have there. In time. Sub-nubbins, nubbins, boopers, or super-droopers." I made her repeat the categories until I had committed them to memory.
~ Garson Kanin
I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.
~ Garth Brooks
There's two dates in time That they'll carve on your stone And everyone knows what they mean What's more important Is the time that is known In that little dash there in between That little dash there in between
~ Garth Brooks
Time is on the side of all things good.
~ Garth Brooks
We've the whole wide world out there waiting for us, and we've forever to make the most've it. And that's the thing: enjoyin' life. Not livin' death, or anything stupid like that. What've we got to fear except the sun?
~ Garth Ennis
We ain't got time for a goddamn poetry recital. An' your juices feel like rain on the inferno? What the fuck is that, is that from the letter you wrote to penthouse?
~ Garth Ennis
Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together. I am not afraid, he said to himself. "I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.
~ Garth Nix
Time and death sleep side by side.
~ Garth Nix
I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
~ Garth Nix
I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!
~ Garth Stein
Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.
~ Garth Stein
Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time.
~ Garth Stein
And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen differently through many different eyes and has become hazy and unclear, like a pond when stirred with a stick. Only the present moment is clear and free from prejudice.
~ Garth Stein
This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me never to give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!
~ Garth Stein
struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature.
~ Garth Stein
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.
~ Garth Stein
To remember is to disengage from the present
~ Garth Stein
Memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.
~ Garth Stein
To live everyday as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.
~ Garth Stein
To remember is to leave the present.
~ Garth Stein
He never understood, as I did, what she meant when she said that medication would only mask the pain, not make it go away, and what's the point of that. He never understood when she said that if she went to a doctor, the doctor would only invent a disease that would explain why he couldn't help her. And there was so much time between episodes. There was so much hope.
~ Garth Stein
Ingatan adalah waktu yang melipat diri. Mengingat berarti memisahkan diri dari saat ini.
~ Garth Stein
But what I've always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he'd done just a second before. Good or bad. Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.
~ Garth Stein