Clock Quotes
clock | December 9, 2008Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.
- Muriel Clark
clock | December 8, 2008There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
- Richard Llewellyn
clock | December 7, 2008Some say no evil thing that walks by night,
In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen,
Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost
That breaks his magic chains at curfew time,
No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine,
Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
- John Milton
clock | December 6, 2008It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
- Katharine Hepburn
clock | December 5, 2008Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said of poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason.
- Lawrence Sterne
clock | December 4, 2008A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts thirty.
- Ernest Leroy Boyer
clock | December 3, 2008There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
clock | December 2, 2008Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinic Saying
clock | December 1, 2008A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter
clock | November 30, 2008Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together.
- Milton Berle
clock | November 29, 2008The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than thirty percent of the people in this world.
- Robert Orben
clock | November 28, 2008Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
- John le Carre
clock | November 27, 2008Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
- Tatyana Tolstaya
clock | November 26, 2008Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
clock | November 25, 2008If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side ... when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time ... is a very good one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
clock | November 24, 2008The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
- James Matthew Barrie
clock | November 23, 2008I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.
- John Steinbeck
clock | November 22, 2008Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species - man - acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
- Rachel Carson
clock | November 21, 2008There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
- Mark Twain
clock | November 20, 2008While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.
- Lee De Forest