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Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.
Mike Schmidt

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock

I saw Len Hutton in his prine.
Another time, another time.
Harold Pinter

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie Robinson

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Sir Thomas More

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way [on being sent to prison]
Paris Hilton

There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!
Buck Henry

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

There are times when you wonder if what you know is really true as people act in ignorance or avoidance.
Peter Goldman

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
Tim Roth

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favourite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.
Drew Barrymore

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.
Michael Clarke Duncan

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold Wilson

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Gerald Johnson

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages
Horace Greeley

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
Lewis Thomas

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.
Roy Rogers

If Glenn Hoddle said one word to his team at half-time, it was concentration and focus.
Ron Atkinson

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.
Al Gore

'Me and Justin are not dating. I don't have a boyfriend. I am an independent woman' - Britney tried to convince everyone she wasn't dating Justin, during a time when she was!
Britney Spears

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Warren Buffett

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!
Jennifer Aniston

In ancient times men drew lots for Valentine's lovers and would then present their date with a pair of gloves.
Sandra Howard

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
Marcel Proust

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
Mickey Mantle

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
Thomas Huxley

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action
Ian Fleming

But I just think the time is right for me to move on and explore other acting opportunities, whilst leaving the door open for Karen to return.
Suranne Jones

What you do not know sometimes is for the best, because were you to know it, the affect it had would be profound.
Carlos Fuentes

I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed. [The Cement Garden]
Ian McEwan

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.
Christina Aguilera

Anywhere is walking distance, if you've got the time.
Steven Wright

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

Sometimes it seems that politicians get a bad press, but when you hear some of the trappings of the lifestyle and what some of them do in their spare time, it seems not bad enough.
Ian Gilmour

Life is short, and time is swift;
Roses fade, and shadows shift
Ebenezer Elliott

There were a million high moments but it's sometimes difficult to communicate those.
Ellen MacArthur

There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
Thomas Campbell

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Sidney Goff

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan

The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air, That
Time's hoary wings grow young therein,
And they who walk there are most fair.
Francis Thompson

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times - it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
Kate Chopin

They smile and then they stab - and they think the next time they come along for a comment you are going to forget the wounding things they write and obligingly talk to them [on the press].
Geoff Boycott

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a *final* frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier *to*, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate...)
Terry Pratchett



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