Time Quotes by Gregory Maguire

“And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet.”

— Gregory Maguire

Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future

— Gregory Maguire

“We are the next thing the Time Dragon is dreaming, and nothing to be done about it.”

— Gregory Maguire

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

— Gregory Maguire

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

— Gregory Maguire

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

— Gregory Maguire

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

— Gregory Maguire

“It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.”

— Gregory Maguire

“Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other.”

— Gregory Maguire

“It's just that that was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful,…

— Gregory Maguire

“Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery, she said to herself, not for the first time. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is…

— Gregory Maguire

“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see…

— Gregory Maguire

“Frex had a notion that she wasn’t sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be…

— Gregory Maguire

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

— Gregory Maguire

“I was quite a looker in my time," she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she…

— Gregory Maguire

“When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis,” she said, “those who are the most themselves are…

— Gregory Maguire

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through…

— Gregory Maguire

“Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're…

— Gregory Maguire

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the…

— Gregory Maguire

No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but…

— Gregory Maguire

“Animals in pens have lots of time to develop theories", said the Cow, "I've heard more than one clever creature draw a…

— Gregory Maguire

“Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't…

— Gregory Maguire

“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along…

— Gregory Maguire

“Chopin’s theme, a simple descending descant the first time round, articulated itself in the repeat with nuanced embellishment. It was music remembering…

— Gregory Maguire

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never…

— Gregory Maguire

“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

And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

— Gregory Maguire

“Death might be the only way forward for someone. Or it might seem so at the time”

— Gregory Maguire

The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and…

— Gregory Maguire

Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're…

— Gregory Maguire

“Given a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said or done, ever, that isn't ironic in…

— Gregory Maguire

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

— Gregory Maguire

“What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait…

— Gregory Maguire

“The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself.”

— Gregory Maguire

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't…

— Gregory Maguire

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is…

— Gregory Maguire

“In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold…

— Gregory Maguire

When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that…

— Gregory Maguire

“If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the…

— Gregory Maguire

“I came here to propose that we meet from time to time. That we meet as friends. That, free of expectations, we…

— Gregory Maguire