- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.
- Domestic Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'
- Drifting
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020