- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I'm frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
- Nov 07, 2020
Prejudices save time.
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020
The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020