Quotes About Time

Geology is not the study of stones. It is the study of time. Rocks are the ticking clocks that measure the age of Earth.

The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.

Babies are tedious. Kids only start to become human on their fifth birthday.

Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.

All the way down in the elevator to the level-forty cablecar junction, her famulus lectured her from her bag. "That really wasn't very Socially Harmonious of you, Courtney, that was a Category Three PainCrime and I feel I must also remind you that you are leaving your work two full hours ahead of your optimum psychofiled quitting time as prepared for you by the Department of Personpower Services …

Names were the nails of history. Things were, had been, would be because they had names to guide them through time. Without a name he had no time-boundedness. Therefore he must have a name. But everything was already named, and all names were assigned. He would have to steal one.

She tried to summon the sixteen-o'clock dream. She called it the sixteen-o'clock dream because on any other day, she would just be nodding off as the cablecar pulled away

She tried to summon the sixteen-o'clock dream.

Time entered the small and tightly bounded universe and gave all things a past out of which they had come, a present through which they were passing, and a future toward which they were progressing. All things. Except himself.

All things. Except himself. He had only present. There was no past to direct him toward a future. There was no remembering of a time before. Before?

Back to the world at the time of the Break. Don't be afraid, it won't hurt you

The present is an illusion.

Somos tan egocéntricos que nos creemos la medida de todas las cosas, pero el tiempo nos arrebatará todo lo que somos, todo lo que tenemos, todo lo que llegaremos a construir.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

The ultimate computer game would be a 'total addiction' - a game that shapes itself to the elements you most like to play in such a manner that it totally satisfies you. You never want to stop playing. However, any self-configuring activity always has such risks inherent in it. Will we see one day the goverment insisting that games have time limiters the way that some motor vehicles have speed limiters?

The past is like that. When it finally taps you on the shoulder, it's never the thing you thought it to be.

isn't the years that matter, Adam. Time doesn't run that way. Life's quick and then it's slow and then there are grey spaces where it really doesn't seem to run at all.

POETS day," he reminded Siobhan. "Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday," she recited.

1446, that's when the foundations were laid. It took forty years to complete." "Sounds like some builders I know," Rebus said. "Can't you feel it?" Sithing was staring at Rebus. "Right at the core of your cynical heart, can't you feel something ?" "It's just indigestion, thanks for asking." Rebus rubbed his chest.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

This volume is dedicated to time. It gives us memories, fine wine, and wrinkles. But the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old. So here's to time, dear reader, yours and mine. May you have many more wrinkles, a lot of fine wine, and memories to last two lifetimes.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

If that was the case, I had to accept it. I had to trust my mother's words: God will get you out in His time.