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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally I volunteer in the kitchen of a pop-up supper club in L.A., which I really love. It's like being a line cook in a great restaurant for one night at a time.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cam disappears at the end of 'Rapture.' It was the only way for me to say good-bye to him at the time, and it's the way he prefers to split, anyway. I always knew I would return to him. He's been my favorite from the start. Readers have long asked what happened to him, but I had to wait for his story to come to me on its own.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
- Grasping
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
- Favorite Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harry Potter' is my favorite movie of all time.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think as females, we always want to have more air time, more room time, more - longer matches and more main events. But, at the end of the day, we're going in that direction, and I'm happy with that, and I'm happy with the side everyone has taken in women's wrestling.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started working all the time, I started eating the right food that will help me have my energy up and stay healthy.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Doin' Fine' is a really special song because it's uplifting but really honest at the same time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just desperately wanted to be thin. That's all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything going for me. I was following my dream. Everything I wanted at the time, I was getting. But I was obsessed with this other thing that was making me unhappy.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020