Quotes about Time, page 9

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Quote by Albert Camus about time

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about time

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Quote by Albert Camus about time

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about time

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about time

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about time

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about time

Every book was the best I could do at the time I wrote it, and every book was a story I still care about and believe in.

Quote by Orson Scott about time

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Quote by Albert Camus about time

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Quote by Orson Scott about time

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about time

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about time

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about time

Dali kept coming up in my research. I was reading a lot of The New Yorker magazines from that time, week after week after week of incredibly detailed snapshots of the city from each year that I was writing about.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

First time was when I was 26 and got married - and it was hell waiting.

Quote by Bette Davis about time

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

That makes Joe pretty unusual among comic book artists of his time, though there were a couple, the foremost among them being Will Eisner, a brilliant artist and a very talented storyteller.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time