Clock Quote by Julian Barnes Download Open image “And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.” — Julian Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clock Malleability Pain Pleasure Pleasure Pain Smallest Smallest Pleasure Takes Smallest Teach Time Time Malleability
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain,… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time. — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
“We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer. — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
“Time can only rob us of the things we can touch; it can't rob us of the things we feel.” — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Time was never neutral and often felt dangerous. We either think we have all the time in the world or time moves too fast… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
“Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened,… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
