Quotes About Moments
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still...
~ Dorothea Lange
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They are afraid of him?' D'Harcourt raised his comedian's eyebrows. Danny Hislop's bright teeth flashed in his hairless, unremarkable face. 'If they were afraid, they'd tear him to pieces like schoolgirls. My guess is that he's gorgeous. A terrible tease and nasty at moments, but oh Maeve, he has such a way with him.… Is he gorgeous, dear Adam?' Adam Blacklock, thus addressed, said quietly, 'Undoubtedly gorgeous.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
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Oh God, thought Jerott. Don't let it happen. She doesn't deserve the torment. The lifetime of waiting, in return for a handful of moments of ecstasy. And standing behind him, always, the ghosts of his other, experienced women. The thoughts he did not share. The knowledge that one had his total friendship but never the key to the innermost door.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
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Mr Weldon grappled for some moments with this surprising piece of logic, but failed to detect either the petitio eleuchi, the undistributed middle or the inaccurate major premiss which is contrived to combine.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
~ Dorothy Parker
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That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.
~ Douglas Adams
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Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
~ Douglas Adams
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In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
~ Douglas Adams
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What I lost, I think, was a whole other life. Everybody does that. Every moment of every day. Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do. Sounds like you noticed one.
~ Douglas Adams
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On yedi y?l, üç ay, iki gün, beÅŸ saat, on dokuz dakika ve yirmi iki saniyedir birisinin bana söylediÄŸi ilk ÅŸey bu. dedi adam. Sayd?m.
~ Douglas Adams
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Man pat?k beigu termi?i. Man it ?paši pat?ks svelpjoš? ska?a, ko tie rada lidojot gar?m.
~ Douglas Adams
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When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.
~ Douglas Coupland
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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
~ Douglas Coupland
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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
~ Douglas Coupland
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Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
~ Douglas Coupland
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What one moment from you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway?'' There is silence. Tobias doesn't get her point, and frankly, neither do I. She continues: ''Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.
~ Douglas Coupland
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
~ Douglas Coupland
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Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect.
~ Douglas Coupland
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
~ Agatha Christie
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One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.
~ Agatha Christie
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And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her--a sense of the loveliness of the world--of her own intense enjoyment of that world.
~ Agatha Christie
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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
~ Agatha Christie
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Pardon, monsieur, for interrupting, but was that a common practice of his?" "No, it was not, but old Françoise has the common idea as regards the English—that they are mad, and liable to do the most unaccountable things at any moment!
~ Agatha Christie
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Next year, maybe, she will look back on the experience and tell her friends that it was "fun"; but oh, the pity of it, not to gather the flowers of the Present, to let them wither, and never pluck them till they are dried wrecks of the Past!
~ Agatha Christie
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