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Quotations by Subject: Time (54 quotes)

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.: John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.: Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography (1937)
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.: Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.: Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)

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