Quotes About Time

It's a cat," I said. "If Donut wants to spend time with you he'll show up in your room and sit on your important things.

Now What? Kerensky said. We wait, Dahl said. For how long? Kerensky said, As long as dramatically appropriate, Dahl said.

The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.

Then: "What time is it in Arizona?" "It's two hours behind here, so about eight thirty," I said. "Maybe. Arizona is weird about time zones.

It's time to get you into your crawl space, if you want to be at the negotiations tomorrow without a hangover. He stood up and offered his hand to Lowen. She took it, wobbling only slightly. Whoa, she said. Someone did something to the artificial gravity. Yes, Wilson said. That's it exactly.

I'm not a heroic hacker with magic code. I was a brain in a box. But I am a programmer. Or was. And I knew the system. I knew the software. And I had a plan. And a little bit of time before anyone was going to bother me again. So I got to work.

Nueva regla: La gente que viaja en el tiempo puede tomarse todo el jodido tiempo del mundo.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time. You

in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and then the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with.

When the drive failed, the ship exploded. And when I say "exploded" I mean "interacted catastrophically with the topography of space/time in ways we're not entirely able to explain," but "explode" gets the gist of it, particularly with regard to what would happen to a human caught in it.

She shrugged. "I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me." Her

I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me.

The Forever War

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time.

I've got the target and I need support. And a ride.:: ::Five minutes and you'll have both,:: Harvey said. ::Just don't rush me.:: ::I'm rushing you,::

Modifying the shuttle flight software to take the human presence out of the equation would not only require a substantial amount of time, but would also technically be classified as treason. Wilson preferred not to engage in treason if he could avoid it.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget"—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.