Hourglass Sands Quotes & Sayings

Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disintegrate. You start with a love story, you end up manacled to an hourglass, watching the sands run out. — Paul Murray

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people. — Ralph Nader

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs. — Thomas Keller

The hours went by quickly, like the proverbial sands slipping down, down, down the center of the hourglass. — Victoria Kahler

Though our hourglass runs, one day it shall not, but then our eternity hourglass begins with never ending sands, what mantle do you want to set your hourglass of eternal life upon? This in your choice to make, no one but you can make that decision. So think wisely and live honorable, for your actions will choice the destination of your hourglass. — Tabitha Robin

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. — Socrates

The passivity of the green girl masquerades as politeness — Kate Zambreno

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff. — Carole King

Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you. — Mae West

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting. — George Eads

I'd love to learn how to foxtrot and cha cha. Believe it or not, I have terrible dancing skills. I can do everything on the ice, but as soon as you put me on the ground, I'm that person that falls down walking off a curb. — Johnny Weir

I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.' — Jenny McCarthy

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him. — Malcolm Lowry

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. — Mitch Kapor

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I? — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Reality spills through her slim fingers like the sands of an hourglass. Thus time is by no means on her side — Haruki Murakami

I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again. — Paul Auster

I'm a great reader that never has time to read. — Eudora Welty

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground. — Henry David Thoreau

Jutta whispers, A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn't let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren't we half-breeds too? Aren't we half our mother, half our father? — Anthony Doerr

I always entertain great hopes. - Robert Frost — Wayne W. Dyer