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Times Quotes by Judith Martin
- One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms…
- Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible…
- I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are…
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. — Darren Aronofsky
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding… — Amitabh Bachchan