Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense. — Ritu Ghatourey 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
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“To remember was an act not of excavation but of self-creation in the present tense.” — Laura Secor Copy Share Image
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“People who notice birds are all listening in the same language, and it's always in the present tense.” — Laura Munson 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
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
“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
I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the… — Oren Moverman 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
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
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
“Seeing your past - or a person from your - can for me at least be physically painful. I'm overwhelmed by a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Instead of seeing the goal, think about it using a technique called lofty questions by author Christie Marie Sheldon. Here you phrase… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the… — Pete Hamill 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
“People work, not me. I look out the window, look out the window, out the window. Outside it's winter, and it's sunny.… — Romina Paula Copy Share Image
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense. — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Move from the past to the present tense. You can start over. All over again~move on(: — Anonymous Copy Share Image
