Language Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“I love the vagueness of words that involve time.”

— David Levithan

“An end to timidity - the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive." - on the making of the Oxford English Dictionary”

— Simon Winchester

“I love how words travel through time; across space and time like little comets, their various meanings burning off like tails behind them.”

— Tess Kincaid

“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...”

— Claire North

“The generality of time, of a family of times, is derived from the fact that all these times are enveloped in a process of…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Time is ubiquitous to humanity and nature but its ephemeral experience within and among us is conceptualized through the lens of culture and langauge”

— Oliver Harper

“time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even…

— James Clavell

“Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer…

— Laura Whitcomb

“Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which can only…

— Scott McCloud

“Linear time has one claim to grandeur: it is the tragic aspect of Time”

— Alan McGlashan

“It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to call it…

— Milan Kundera

“when they ask me the meaning of time I am speechless and I choose to be friends with minutes and seconds, as I know,…

— ys sroyer