All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest Hemingway
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin
I live in a crazy time.
Anne Frank
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie Robinson
Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Katharine Hepburn
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Aurelius
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Marcus Aurelius
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
