Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed,… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to… — Marcia Cross Copy Share Image
“The time-deniers say: forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on. I know this much:… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I don't know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37,… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game,… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
“Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them.… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Time isn’t a line or a circle or any 2-D object, Aisling had written. It’s more like you’re standing inside of a… — Erica Cameron Copy Share Image
“In the first of our conversations, you explained how different time was for you—how it’s an abstraction. Some hours glide past like… — Douglas Sterling Copy Share Image
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“What you do need to know is this: Time moves differently when you’re getting over something big. For me, it slows—limping along… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The street heaves and winds, burns and bumps, but behind the glass the locksmith, the old curator of timepieces, stands motionless with… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Only on rare occasions was the calendar the basis of the chronology. More often than not, the narrator's sense of time is… — Patricia Lim Pui Huen Copy Share Image
If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Time is a sphere made up of language, colours, smells, senses and sounds, a sphere in which you and the world coexist,… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!')… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart,… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
“But even they it was as though the time that the clock measured was not put to any use. For by far… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“Realization: We render time by stitching together moments--flipping pages in the book of consciousness presents a continuous stream. Our senses too slow… — David David Katzman Copy Share Image
“But, no matter what they do, keep walking keep moving. And don't wear a watch. Hell, Indians never need to wear a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand “flying” as the only function of time. If time simply flew… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
You've got to have some fun before games or you make the season too long. We don't start work until seven o'clock.… — Prince Fielder Copy Share Image
Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image