Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de la Bruyere

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

J. G. Ballard

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

Jack Williamson

I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

Karl Pilkington

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

Louise Gluck

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Marilyn Ferguson

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Nigella Lawson

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Peter Drucker

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

Rosario Dawson

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

Seth Godin

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

Tariq Ramadan

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Tom Stoppard

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

William Godwin

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

William Morris

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Augustus Hare