Quotes of: Present-tense Keyword

Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.

Dust

Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Girl in a Cage

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

God Emperor of Dune

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Blue Nights

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

Bartleby, the Scrivener

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

The Book Thief

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

Christopher Egan

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Colin Firth

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

Debbie Harry

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

Michelle Dockery

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

Martin Heidegger

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Sam Houston

I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.

Alia Shawkat

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Amber Valletta

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Jerry Saltz

We should kill the future, so the present has no choice but to retreat into the past.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

The Alchemist

Sometimes love cut so deep it causes terrible pain, or crosses paths with the joy of his present experiences.

Alanna