"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."

Time, People, Idea, Living

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"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."

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"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."

Work, Help, Murder, Television

"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."

Life, Fear, Film, Luck

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."

Nothing, Sea

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"

Motivational, Motivation, Character, Actor

"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."

Pleasure,

"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."

Journalism, Kitchen, Tenderness

"Self-plagiarism is style."

Self, Style

"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

Poor, Will

"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."

Creativity, Idea, Sound

"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."

Time, People, Idea, Living

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Time, Knowledge, Facts, Forget

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

Time, Regret, Future, Action

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, Day, Forget, Tomorrow, Spirit

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Regret, Today, Future

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience