Timekeeping Systems Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first. — Ellen Page

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it. — Mary Karr

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour. — Terry Pratchett

As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live. — Alfred Nestor

Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems. — Vernor Vinge

It is safer to be feared than loved — Niccolo Machiavelli

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean. — Howard Dean

You flew too near the sun and you were scorched. — L.P. Hartley

I love you, Althea - you are so beautiful," murmured the young man into my ear.
Well, I was willing enough. I looked up at him from under my eyelashes. "I love you too," I confessed. I averted my gaze and added privately, "You are so rich."
Unfortunately, I apparently said this aloud, if just barely, and his hearing was sharper than one would expect, given his other attributes. — Patrice Kindl