Happy-playgrounds Quote by William H. Gass Download Open image ““time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.”” — William H. Gass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happy-playgrounds Ordinary things Time
“Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There is time, and then there is timelessness. And if you're lucky, and if you can be still enough, observant enough, you may be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Time is the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once.” — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the… — Vivian Marie Feggans Copy Share Image
“Time has a savage way of gnawing away at life, leaving it transitory and incomplete, so that life in its fullness can never be… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“I dreamed my lips would drift down your back like a skiff on a river. I'd follow a vein with the point of my… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs.… — padgett powell Copy Share Image
“don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do… — William Gay Copy Share Image
“i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.” — Johnny Shaw Copy Share Image
“A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.” — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
“i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
