Quotes About Time

The past settles into afternoons, that's where time visibly slows down, it dozes off in the corners, blinking like a cat looking through thin blinds. It's always afternoon when you remember something, at least that's how it is for me. Everything is in the light.

Sometimes—at the same time—I am a dinosaur, a fish, a bat, a bird, a single-celled organism swimming in the primordial soup, or the embryo of a mammal, sometimes I'm in a cave, sometimes in a womb, which is basically the same thing—a place protected (against time).

Uvijek je popodne kada se ne?ega sjetimo, ili je barem kod mene tako. Sve je svjetlost. Znam s fotografija da je popodnevna svjetlost najprikladnija za ekspoziciju. Popodnevna je stara svjetlost, umorna i spora. Pravi život svijeta i ?ovjeka može se opisati kroz nekoliko popodneva koja su poslijepodneva svijeta.

Childhood and youth are full of verbs. You can't sit still. Everything in you is growing, gushing forth, developing. Later the verbs are gradually replaced by the nouns of middle age. Kids, cars, work, family—the substantial things of the substantives. Growing old is an adjective. We enter into the adjectives of old age—slow, boundless, hazy, cold, or transparent like glass.

Lotte, I asked without beating around the bush, what decade would you choose—the sixties, the seventies, or the eighties? She fell silent for a moment and gave the best answer that can be given to such a question: I'd like to be twelve years old in each of them. That would be my answer, too.

Sometimes we don't stop to think how some historical event only appears to be more distant than it actually is. When I was born, the Second World War was a mere twenty-three years in the past, but it has always seemed like a completely different epoch to me.

At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created. Tomorow was September 1

Outside Bulgaria's borders people age more beautifully and more slowly, old age is more merciful elsewhere.

There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme. There's no gift like friendship And no love like mine. Give me your love to treasure through time.

The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What am I?

Nobody sees a flower really it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me-some of them more than sixty years ago-I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives. If the person in the photographs were living in this world today, she would be quite a different person-but it doesn't matter-Stieglitz photographed her then.

Come quickly. You mustn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.

To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

they say that when you get old, as I am, your body slows down. I don't believe it. No, I think that is quite wrong. I have a theory that you do not slow down at all, but that life slows down for you. You understand me? Everything becomes languid, as it were, and you can notice so much more when things sre in slow motion. The things you see! The extraordinary things that happen all around you, that you never even suspected before. It really is a delightful adventure, quite delightful.

they say that when you get old, as I am, your body slows down. I don't believe it. No, I think that is quite wrong. I have a theory that you do not slow down at all, but that life slows down for you. You understand me? Everything becomes languid, as it were, and you can notice so much more when things are in slow motion. The things you see! The extraordinary things that happen all around you, that you never even suspected before! It is really a delightful adventure, quite delightful!

I'm sure it's an epidemic,' she exclaimed at last, peering down nervously into the street. 'Nonsense, Mother; don't fuss,' said Larry airily. 'But, dear, so many of them … it's unnatural.' 'There's nothing unnatural about dying. People do it all the time.

It became obvious, now that we had time to concentrate, that Captain Creech was extremely drunk.

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

see worry as a waste of time because, in actuality, worrying doesn't work!

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.

We recommend 10 to 20 minutes, but even five minutes or just 50 to 100 jumps can be powerful.

Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long"—a different cost category. Make sure you're accounting for effort and time under the correct cost category.