Quotes About Time

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

Arsenal were really interested in me for a long time, and I think that I fit into the football Arsenal play.

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

O amor toma a cor do século a que pertence. Em 1822 é doutrinário. Em lugar de se provar o amor como antigamente por meio de factos, discute-se, transformam-no num discurso de tribuna.

His life flowed soundless as the sands of an hour-glass. His victims sometimes flew into a rage and made a great deal of noise, followed by a great silence; so is it in a kitchen after a fowl's neck has been wrung.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting!

And finally, if he sleeps, he sleeps apace, and hurries through his slumber as he does his life.

For all human sentiments there is a time of early blossoming, a day of generous enthusiasm that gradually fades until nothing is left of happiness but a memory, and glory is known for a delusion.

Whenever, in after times, I have gone through museums of old furniture in Paris, London, Munich, or Vienna, with the gray-headed custodian who shows you the splendors of time past, I have peopled the rooms with figures from the Collection of Antiquities.

Tout pouvoir humain est un composé de patience et de temps.

Time has become the costliest commodity, so no one can afford the lavish extravagance of going home to-morrow morning and getting up late. Hence, there is no second soiree now but at the houses of women rich enough to entertain, and since July 1830 such women may be counted in Paris.

Néanmoins, en 1819, époque à laquelle ce drame commence, il s'y trouvait une pauvre jeune fille. En quelque discrédit

El dolor dejó en el rostro de esta mujer un velo de tristeza. Esta nube no se disipó hasta la edad terrible en que la mujer comienza a añorar sus buenos tiempos pasados sin haberlos disfrutado, cuando ve marchitarse sus rosas y cuando los deseos del amor renacen con el ansia de prolongar las últimas sonrisas de la juventud.

who had not felt his daughter's heart beat against his breast for ten years, "do you want me to die of joy?

It was at this time that he devised the idea of having characters reappear from novel to novel, and the first novel to use this technique was Le Père Goriot in 1834. The idea may seem simple now to modern readers, but having characters reappearing in novels over a time period creates an impression as though they have lives of their own.

Morning broke before the last song was finished. Lucien tried it over to a street-song of the day, to the consternation of Berenice and the priest, who thought that he was mad: — Lads, 'tis tedious waste of time To mingle song and reason; Folly calls for laughing rhyme, Sense is out of season.

Art can go no further than this. Art has risen above Nature, since Nature only gives her creatures a few brief years of life.

Timpul este singurul capital al oamenilor care n-au alt? avere decât inteligen?a.

Mon Dieu! why could they not always be little girls?

my brother, the Duc de Rhetore, never comes in, I am told, till it is time to dress for dinner. Miss Griffith (she is not unlike a griffin) and Philippe took me to my rooms.

finding that art is long and life is short — ars longa et vita brevis — did not commit the mistake of wasting their time and lessening their powers of creation by silly and insipid intrigues.

Even in a place of sorrow, time passes. Even in a place of joy. Do not assume that either keeps life from continuing,

Come day, go day, as the old folks say,