#time

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. ↗

— James Thurber

#average #banquet #begins #calls #end

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#calloway #did #doing #everybody #i

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#die #fear #instead #make #many

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#am #because #birth #care #child

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#been #big #couple #finished #great

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#before #go #i #late #many

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#alcohol #being #children #found #good

The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#big budget #biggest #biggest difference #budget #budget film

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?" [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] ↗

— Susan Sontag

#choices #future #life #past #present

If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#great #had #i #naked #time