Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“The European and the African have an entirely different concept of time. In the European worldview, time exists outside man, exists objectively,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Time is a relationship that we have with the rest of the universe; or more accurately, we are one of the clocks,… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a… — Andrea Corr Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity,… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
With the 24-second clock, they throw up the shot so fast you don't see plays worked very often. With the extra six… — George Mikan Copy Share Image
In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
On the most Scottish thing he'd ever seen: I was going through a town called Bathgate at around 11 o'clock at night.… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly,… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The Fulton Fish Market will be more of an odor than a landmark at this time of day, but it really swings… — Timothy Levitch Copy Share Image
As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People went to bed when the sun went down and they woke up when the sun came up. That's what our bodies… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
“Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, forward and backward,… — Sara Ella Copy Share Image
She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Time’s voice is everything you can physically experience. It is a favourite smell, a first taste from childhood, a vision shared with… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“The little hand on time’s clock trips away as though measuring seconds; but God knows how much time it is covering when… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Hey, I'm going to Super Dog for a quick bite and to pass along a message from a dead guy to his… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set… — S.C. Stephens Copy Share Image
I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong. The Minutes are Captains.… — Philander Chase Johnson Copy Share Image
If you're tired of getting additional information, you can just close your eyes, get some sleep. But earlids, covering of the ears,… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Many feel compelled to be connected around the clock because we are afraid we'll miss something important. There is a growing movement… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
