I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense. — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Over reliance on past glory is the past tense of success and the present tense of failure” — ABC Copy Share Image
“Word your sankalpa briefly, sincerely, positively, and in the present tense.” — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“In 1997, climate change was discussed in the future tense. Today we discuss it in the present tense. It is no longer… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
“People who notice birds are all listening in the same language, and it's always in the present tense.” — Laura Munson Copy Share Image
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Let me clarify something for you, Damon. There is the simple present tense, which is used to describe things that take place… — Danka V Copy Share Image
“Jah know, sometimes I don’t learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There. I said it. "Anne is my best friend: I say that in the present tense because I don't like to think… — Roxanne Henke Copy Share Image
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“I haven't felt the warmth of stage lights in years, not like I did when I danced. Kissing Aly's like a thousand… — Katherine Locke Copy Share Image
“I'm in the market for some present tense; I'm on the lookout, shopping around, more so every year. It's a seller's market—do… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“We also have the word 'feeling'. Its present tense suggests the active present, that the feeling is directly in contact with reality.… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“The widower was so full of questions that I half expected him to ask for an identity card. The only thing I… — Joy Kagawa Copy Share Image
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree,… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“Longing is the absent chatting with the absent. The distant turning toward the distant. Longing is the spring’s thirst for the jar-carrying… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood” — Yvonne Blackwood Copy Share Image
“It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.” — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
“I love you present tense. It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me? Okay, okay.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The phrase “I have children” is always present tense. They are always with me. Even when I am by myself, I “have… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I go up but at the same time go down. Up towards the blue sky, and down towards the ground. Im present… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“That’s probably the worst thing about death. Is turns into was. Everything that was once present tense is now in the past.” — Caleb Reese Copy Share Image
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
