Quotes About Time

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

Marriage is meant to be a very sacred union between two people who have no intention of ever becoming emotionally or physically tied to another person for the rest of eternity. Most people mean their marriage vows when they take them, but oftentimes--these days more often than not, according to statistics--the initial commitment begins to wane and ultimately dissipates altogether. We live in a time when most people who get married before they turn thirty are merely doing a practice run.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

I hate birthdays.

dated to the ninth

It took Man some 2,000,000 years to advance in his "tool industries" from the use of stones as he found them to the realization that he could chip and shape stones to better suit his purposes. Why not another 2,000,000 years to learn the use of other materials, and another 10,000,000 years to master mathematics and engineering and astronomy? Yet here we are, less than 50,000 years from Neanderthal Man, landing astronauts on the Moon.

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

Time passed slowly, like an old man climbing a hill.

All of these things considered, it is not surprising that one can detect echoes, correspondences and even an eternal return or two within the work of a single author. The passage of time does bring changes, yea and alas; but still, I would recognize myself anywhere.

After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago."

Paris is a pen-and-ink drawing before nine o'clock.

And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

Everything pursues its own ends and skies stay warm + beneficent - though winter time always leaves many vagrant nostalgias and a sense of more supply than demand of Time and of the portentousness of the weather.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

I fell in love with the short story form and kept on going. I found that even 3,000 words is surprisingly spacious and that writing short allowed me to experimented with different subgenres and voices without a huge investment of time and energy or too much of a stake in the outcome for any particular story.

My way of allotting my time is completely intuitive. I sit down at the typewriter every morning and start tackling whatever seems most pressing.

Ea îl aÈ™teapt?, aÈ™a cum a cerut, È™i chiar dac? n-a cerut ea aÈ™teapt?, È™i poate nu pe el, ci trecutul, care în parte era È™i al lui, pentru c? acum i se pare c? nici o fapt? pe care a f?ptuit-o de atunci È™i nici o tr?ire pe care s tr?it-o de atunci È™i nici un sim??mânt pe care l-a simÈ›it de atunci nu au izbutit s? fie mai presus de trecutul acela.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

Waiting for changing opinions is like waiting for nothing.