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Time Quotes


"I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can."


"The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look."


"Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children."


"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"


"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."


"And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking."



"Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain."


"We who determine how quickly time passes."



"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."


"Today is yesterday's pupil."



"The present is the living sum-total of the whole past."


"Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting."


"Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority."


"Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that."


"When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago."


"3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."


"In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going."


"I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all."


"After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?"


"If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things."


"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."


"The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time."


"Some people live a lifetime every second, others only a second in a life time with little happiness to find. Learn to seize each and every second and make your life divine!"


"Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow."



"For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground."


"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."


"If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?"
Time,


"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
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