Clock Quotes
clock | April 6, 2010I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
- Rebecca West
clock | April 5, 2010The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- Jack London
clock | April 4, 2010Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
clock | April 3, 2010Alas! There is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
clock | April 2, 2010To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
clock | April 1, 2010Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
- Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist (1857-1913)
clock | March 30, 2010Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
clock | March 29, 2010It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette
clock | March 28, 2010There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
- Coco Chanel
clock | March 27, 2010Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
- Clarence Day
clock | March 26, 2010Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.
- Clive Staples Lewis
clock | March 25, 2010Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.
- Clara Winston
clock | March 24, 2010I wanna do a better album each time. And if I cannot do that, I will not record.
- Celine Dion
clock | March 23, 2010When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
- Stephen King
clock | March 22, 2010Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
- Christopher Morley
clock | March 21, 2010You can't put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you've made; some just need time to heal...
- Christina Montano
clock | March 19, 2010Sometimes we are afraid to question because we confuse it with doubt, at times when doubt cannot be indulged. Questioning is not the same thing as doubting. ...Living the questions requires a willingness to live with paradox, to endure confusion in our rational minds that only the intuitive mind can entertain: intuition accepts the paradox instead of changing it.
- Christina Baldwin
clock | March 18, 2010"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts for support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)