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Quotes About Moment

There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath
~ Douglas Adams
The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment, so long one could hardly tell where all the time was coming from.
~ Douglas Adams
The word bulldozer wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something to connect with.
~ Douglas Adams
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and dissappointment. Learn to be with the joy of the moment.
~ Douglas Adams
One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.
~ Douglas Adams
I????n adeta yüzdüÄŸü her ÅŸafak vaktinde büyülü bir olas?l?k an? vard?r. Yarat?l?? tam o s?rada nefesini tutmuÅŸtur.
~ Douglas Adams
I go up, said the elevator, or down. Good, said Zaphod, We're going up. Or down, the elevator reminded him. Yeah, OK, up please. There was a moment of silence. Down's very nice, suggested the elevator hopefully. Oh yeah? Super. Good, said Zaphod, Now will you take us up?
~ Douglas Adams
Wail, wail, screech, wail, honk, honk, squeak went the bagpipes, increasing the captain's already considerable pleasure at the thought that any moment now they might stop.
~ Douglas Adams
What was unspeakable found voice and its bleating froze the air for a moment hacked from the fabric of time as the secret of all stabbed at his ears.
~ Douglas Clegg
But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.
~ Douglas Coupland
We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.
~ Douglas Coupland
It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
~ Douglas Coupland
An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this:    " Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again.
~ Douglas Preston
It took a good two or three minutes for the water to work its way down through the canopy and reach us on the ground—
~ Douglas Preston
The moment of change is the only poem
~ Adrienne Rich
Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.
~ Aesop
And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
~ Agatha Christie
Character, mon cher, does not stand still. It can gather strength. It can also deteriorate. What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes—that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.
~ Agatha Christie
Inspector Slack had been abominably and most unnecessarily rude. I was looking forward to a moment when I could produce my valuable contribution and effect his discomfiture. I would then say in a tone of mild reproach: "If you had only listened to me, Inspector Slack….
~ Agatha Christie
It was a fantastic moment. In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards more than one of those present remembered that moment.
~ Agatha Christie
Some oysters which Griselda had ordered, and which would seem to be beyond the reach of incompetence, we were, unfortunately, not able to sample as we had nothing in the house to open them with—an omission which was discovered only when the moment for eating them arrived.
~ Agatha Christie
Funny, just this minute he didn't want much to get away from the island.
~ Agatha Christie
There was a moment's stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak.
~ Agatha Christie
This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.
~ Agatha Christie