“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
“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
“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood” — Yvonne Blackwood Copy Share Image
“It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Sex is common noun that standing or lying down past or present tense done with the girl with the common sense ... — Melchor Lim 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
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
“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
To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“I find that the only way I can survive is in the present tense. If I look at my past, I see… — Claire North 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
“Where is my second road to the staircase of expanse? Where is futility? Where is the road to the road? And where… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“I'm sitting at the bar, rearranging the order of my jokes. I'm under the delusion that I'm having bad shows because of… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The Constructed Space" Meanwhile surely there must be something to say, Maybe not suitable but at least happy In a sense between… — W.S. Graham 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
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“As the conference continued it occurred to me finally that it wasn't really about Indian history as it was written, but really… — Tanuja Desai Hidier Copy Share Image
“Memory is igneous more than ingenious, igneous, and like granite, intrusive, heaved up within oneself, the whole range of one's life, mountains'… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“Now this is this, or seems to be. When you're haunted by any variety of effective nonsense, like love or guilt or… — Gregory Maguire 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 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
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense. — Tom Hooper 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
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With… — Kevin Systrom 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
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
Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
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