Quotes About Time

In our universe, we measure time with clocks, and computers have a "clock speed," but the clocks that govern the digital universe are very different from the clocks that govern ours. In the digital universe, clocks exist to synchronize the translation between bits that are stored in memory (as structures in space) and bits that are communicated by code (as sequences in time). They are clocks more in the sense of regulating escapement than in the sense of measuring time.

My muse must come to me on union time.

It was sad and lonely to be left. You'd go to church and stand there for some time. The school had a chapel. The maser would be there with maybe two or three other students. You had to kill time before dinner. I would go to the reception hall and play the piano. There was no one there, total emptiness.

Harmony is the characteristic of the intellectual system of the universe; and immutable laws of moral existence must pervade all time and all space, all ages and all worlds.

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

Quando se fica velha a memória não é muito boa. - Ela suspirou. - Não é tão ruim esquecer coisas pequenas, é quando não se sabe o que entristece mais, se o outono, porque faz a gente se lembrar de si mesma, ou a primavera, porque se aproveita menos dela do que antes. A coisa mais triste na velhice é talvez não ser mais capaz de tolices. Tradução de Clarice Lispector

Westward the course of empire takes its way;The four first acts already past,A fifth shall close the drama with the day:Time's noblest offspring is the last.

The greatest thing in life is to die young — but delay it as long as possible.

Youth is wasted on the young.

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though those five-and-twenty be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in the possession of wealth, honors, respectability.

At my age flowers scare me.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

Young. Old. Just Words.