Quotes About Time

Guys'?" Doucet asked. "I saw three members of l'Académie." "Um, Provost?" "Prévost?" "That's it." "I'll contact him. She also spent some time with Josephine Baker," Doucet offered.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning. —H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future

Do you plan on indulging your flair for the dramatic throughout our time here?" "I expect so," he said complacently.

Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.

I stood for a moment, letting my ears do the walking, and then I gave the bell a thorough ring and waited thirty thoughtful seconds before ringing it again. And that, let me assure you, is not a waste of time. Public institutions throughout the fifty states provide food and clothing and shelter for lads who don't ring the bell first.

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.

What time is it? Time? Time. Oh, She said. A quarter to four. Mr. Markham, something terrible has happened. She didn't have to tell me that. Something perfectly dreadful had happened, by God. Someone had called me in the middle of the bloody night.

novels pass in and out of my hands while volumes of poetry are mine for life.

A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man

The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Nor all your piety and wit Can call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

Hopper was neither an illustrator nor a narrative painter. His paintings don't tell stories. What they do is suggest—powerfully, irresistibly—that there are stories within them, waiting to be told. He shows us a moment in time, arrayed on a canvas; there's clearly a past and a future, but it's our task to find it for ourselves.

I haven't seen her in five years. Well, hell, I haven't had a cigarette in twelve, and I damn well wanted one for a minute there. Sometimes I don't think anybody ever gets over anything.

It took a while to tell but it hadn't taken all that long to live;

Too damn long.' He put his coat on an empty chair, settled a slim attaché case on top of it, and placed a narrow-brimmed gray hat on top of the attaché case. He seated himself across the table from me and dug his lucky charm out of his pocket. I watched him set it spinning. 'Too goddamned long, Matt,' he told the coin.

I rode to the fourth floor, poked around until I found the stairway, and walked down a flight. I almost always do this and I sometimes wonder why. I think someone must have done it in a movie once and I was evidently impressed, but it's really a waste of time, especially when the elevator in question is self-service.

Tomorrow's always there, just over the horizon. Until the tomorrows run out.

philately is far and away the area of my life where I spend the most time and effort making genuinely inconsequential decisions.

I went into the bathroom and caught sight of my reflection in the mirror over the sink. All my years looked back at me, and I could feel their weight, pressing down on my shoulders. I ran the shower hot and stood under it for a long time...

When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come.

You don't sleep. You're thirty-four years old and lost the power to sleep when you were eighteen. Is

I don't sleep, have not slept in sixteen years—

We touched glasses very solemnly and drank a toast to health and love and money and time to enjoy them.

was thinking about getting myself a VCR. I could see any movie I wanted any time of the day, and it doesn't cost but two or three dollars to rent one. But it's not the same, watching on your own set in your own room, and on a bitty TV screen. It's like the difference between praying at home and in church.

myself was increasingly early to bed and early to rise, though I can't say the effects were as the adage promised.