Calendars Quote by Mary Lascelles

““A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.””

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“In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.”

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“A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.”

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“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another…

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“Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.”

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“Jane Austen never repeats herself.”

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“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.”

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“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of…

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“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not…

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“Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's…

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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.

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The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of…

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There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

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It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so…

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I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I have lived long enough and served in enough different capacities to have removed from my mind, if such were necessary, any doubt of the divinity of this, the work of God. We respect those of…

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More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

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I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

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Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

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Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,…

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The calendar? A mere convention.

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