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Quotes About Time

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.
~ Graham Swift
How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.
~ Graham Swift
That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.
~ Graham Swift
Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?
~ Graham Swift
There are no compasses for journeying in time.
~ Graham Swift
But I have not brought history with me this evening (history is a thin garment, easily punctured by a knife blade called Now). I have brought my fear.
~ Graham Swift
Time passes so quickly. And if time passes quickly in time, how much more, then, in eternity!
~ Grant Allen
He slipped the gold fob-watch out of his waistcoat, flicked open the cover and stared at the dial. The Cat had replaced the conventional numbers with a series of symbols, which stood for 'food', 'sex', 'snooze', 'light snooze', 'heavy snooze', 'major sleep', 'self-adoration hour', 'preening' and 'bathtime'. Right now, it was twenty past sex, or, to put it another way, quarter to food.
~ Grant Naylor
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
~ Grantland Rice
One minute of patience, ten years of peace
~ Greek proverb
it's not a question but a lesson learned in time
~ Green
Something unpredictable but in the end it's right, I hope you have the time of your life.
~ Greenday
I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
~ Greer Garson
Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.
~ Greg Behrendt
Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.
~ Greg Behrendt
I'm about to make a wild, extreme, and severe relationship rule: THE WORD "BUSY" IS A LOAD OF CRAP AND IS MOST OFTEN USED BY ASSHOLES. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.
~ Greg Behrendt
Don't waste the pretty
~ Greg Behrendt
The camera is a remarkable thing, you think, with its ability to transform the mundane into an immortal moment able to travel through time, reappear days or months or years after its actually occurrence. Every second of our existence is alive with possibility, but we don't see it until we hit rewind, until we freeze the frame. It is sad that so many things, all suffused with meaning, escape the unaided eye.
~ Greg Bottoms
I want to plant a little garden with you now take care of a piece of the earth somehow and tend it when we're old and gray and try to straighten up and say, well, I'm so glad to see you today hey baby hey baby hey baby hey
~ Greg Brown
Gamers] want to be swept up in the moment of play, to be, for the most part, in a flow state, and not be halted to think deeply about the next thing they must accomplish. Similarly, casual gamers prize lean back games that allow them to while away some time in an interesting way, with a degree of visual spectacle and a continuing dopamine drip of nicely times rewards...
~ Greg Costikyan
Six hundred summers, she reflected.Six hundred snowy winters. Thirty-five generations of mortal humanity. And finally, again…the sun.
~ Greg Cox
maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always time to appreciate a good book.
~ Greg Cox
The Aleph moment would be followed, on a timescale of seconds, by the degeneration of physics into pure mathematics. Just as the Big Bang implied pre-space before it – an infinitely symmetric roiling abstraction where nothing really existed or happened – the Aleph moment would bring on the informational mirror image, another infinite wasteland without time or space.
~ Greg Egan
I have other time frames to worry about besides yours!
~ Greg Egan