Quote by H. G. Wells Download Open image ““They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.”” — H. G. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“[...] My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. [...]” — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“When they were gone, she found her time hung heavy upon her hands...” — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
“Oh dear, oh dear, I sat there. I am sitting there still. I am old enough to know that time passing is just a… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“We’d been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate down. We… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“... She was a clock, I could tell by the ticking in her wrist. (I'd secretly slipped my thumb down, to feel her pulse… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Time is a track that loops back on itself, where memories rattle like tin trains. How had I been spending my days, but in… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?” — Lorna Crozier Copy Share Image
“In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.” — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image