Past Like Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

• In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
• Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My… — Rex Harrison
• And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
• Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future — Robert Smithson
• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your… — Edwidge Danticat
• One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had… — Jamaica Kincaid
• Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It… — Mal Peet
• The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at… — Brady Udall
• The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. — Stephen Hawking
• The brain heals the past like an injury ... — Arthur Miller
• Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees… — John Greenleaf Whittier
• People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that. — John Cusack
• I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something… — Marc Jacobs
• While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. — Ronald Reagan
• The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over… — Rachel Naomi Remen
• My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me. — Barbara Kingsolver
• For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the… — Alexander Masters
• There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. — Ian Mckellen

Who Wrote These Past Like Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 32 Past Like Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Past Like Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• 1 Past Like Quote by Lil Wayne
• 1 Past Like Quote by Pacifiersucker
• 1 Past Like Quote by Anton Chekhov
• 1 Past Like Quote by Rex Harrison
• 1 Past Like Quote by Zadie Smith
• 1 Past Like Quote by Robert Smithson
• 1 Past Like Quote by Edwidge Danticat
• 1 Past Like Quote by Jamaica Kincaid
• 1 Past Like Quote by Mal Peet
• 1 Past Like Quote by Brady Udall
• 1 Past Like Quote by Stephen Hawking
• 1 Past Like Quote by Arthur Miller
• 1 Past Like Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier
• 1 Past Like Quote by John Cusack
• 1 Past Like Quote by Marc Jacobs
• 1 Past Like Quote by Ronald Reagan
• 1 Past Like Quote by Navjot Singh Sidhu
• 1 Past Like Quote by Rachel Naomi Remen
• 1 Past Like Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
• 1 Past Like Quote by Alexander Masters
• 1 Past Like Quote by Ian Mckellen
• 1 Past Like Quote by James Gleick
• 1 Past Like Quote by Charles Erwin Wilson
• 1 Past Like Quote by Terry Pratchett