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Quotes About Moment

May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
~ Jane Austen
One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Hunger that comes and goes turns time into memory.
~ Jane Hirshfield
To feel sabi is to feel keenly one's own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular moment as William Blake did "infinity in the palm of your hand"—to feel it precise and almost-weightless as a sand grain, yet also vast.
~ Jane Hirshfield
However strong his opinions and theories, Bash?'s primary allegiance was to the living moment and its accurate, full-hearted presentation. Of the formal requirements of haiku, he said, "If you have three or four, even five or seven extra syllables but the poem still sounds good, don't worry about it. But if one syllable stops the tongue, look at it hard.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought." However strong his opinions and theories, Bash?'s primary allegiance was to the living moment and its accurate, full-hearted presentation. Of the formal requirements of haiku, he said, "If you have three or four, even five or seven extra syllables but the poem still sounds good, don't worry about it. But if one syllable stops the tongue, look at it hard.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Un giorno è sconfinato Un giorno è sconfinato Fino a mezzogiorno Poi è andato L'acqua del laghetto di ieri m'intreccia ancora i capelli Non so che ora è Impossibile capirlo Ma possibile rinunciarvi p#159
~ Jane Hirshfield
A person falling does not, mid-plummet, look up.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Today is tomorrow, and present is past. Nothing exists and everything will last. There is no beginning, there was no end. No depth to fall, no height to ascend. There is only this moment, this flicker of light That illuminates nothing, but oh! So bright! For we are the spark that flutters in space, Consuming an eternity of a moment's grace. For today is tomorrow and present and past. Nothing exists and everything will last.
~ Jane Roberts
I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.
~ Jane Seymour
A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am
~ Jane Wagner
I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.
~ Janet Frame
I went towards the stairs, just as the band was playing 'Now is the Hour', and the music reached down like a long spoon inside me and stirred, and stirred.
~ Janet Frame
Time is so...fluid where I live
~ Janet Morris
I wound my arms around his neck and kissed him back, trying to capture this moment, to clasp it, so I could always remember what it felt like to hold him this way.
~ Janette Rallison
If you don't seize the moment, the moment will never seize you.
~ Janette Rallison
takes a moment to change everything. Savannah glanced at Jane, then smiled at Hunter. "I see you found my car." "It's just the hot rod
~ Janette Rallison
From outer darkness to outer darkness, a feathered meteor through a moment of light...
~ Janette Turner Hospital
when it came time for that once-in-a-lifetime shot of the bride and groom sealing the deal with a lengthy smooch, the groomsmen all lifted scorecards rating the kiss. Everything from a 9.5 to a 10.0.
~ Janice Thompson
That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
~ Janis Ian
Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.
~ Janis Joplin
tomorrow never happens. it's the same fucking day, man.
~ Janis Joplin
The day you decide to do it is your lucky day
~ Japanese Proverb
Des milliers et des milliers d'années Ne sauraient suffire Pour dire La petite seconde d'éternité Où tu m'as embrassé Où je t'ai embrassèe Un matin dans la lumière de l'hiver Au parc Montsouris à Paris A Paris Sur la terre La terre qui est un astre.
~ Jaques Prevert