Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
“COMPLETELY. Utterly. Frozen. My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she finishes. Her words are sinking in. A… — Colleen Hoover 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
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'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense. — Bill Pullman 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
“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
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
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“We're in her bedroom,and she's helping me write an essay about my guniea pig for French class. She's wearing soccer shorts with… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Leene says I should think about people in the present tense. “It forces you to take responsibility for them,” she says.” — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
“She had come out tonight because she believed there had to be a present tense, somewhere, and she'd followed Gav and Barnesy… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands—with all my senses, in fact—is always a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in… — Edward Albee 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
“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Part 2: Setting a Sankalpa Setting a sankalpa, a personal resolve, enhances your yoga nidra experience immensely and helps transfer the benefits… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
“Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too… — Angela Carter 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
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense. — Dennis Crowley Copy Share Image
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