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Time Quotes by John Irving
- Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or…
- I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost…
- And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary…
- So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.
- What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
- She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at…
- Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It…
- …there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.
- When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long…
- If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good.…
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way…
- When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes,…
- . . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
- You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still…
- One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does…
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani