Quotes of: Present-time Keyword

Paul: Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in - it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those...

Midnight in Paris

It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future of a human lifetime, since he fears death far too m...

Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Matthew Fox

When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present.

Suze Orman

…if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing which is must suffer to be touched. Ours is a time of connection; the private, and we must accept this, and it’s a hard thing to accept, the...

Homebody/Kabul

The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar to what this time-lapse footage does. The enhanc...

Sebastian Marincolo

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

Douglas Coupland

I got you a birthday present. The box is the exact same size as a coffin.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Transcendence is when God exists outside space and time while immanence is when He is present in time and space. Travel between them and make Transcendence your value in life.

JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was t...

Gael Garcia Bernal

If you are a responsible scientist, you are going to present your new results in a paper, and maybe if, over time, things are established, and it's prime time for the public to hear about it, then you include it in a book.

Lisa Randall

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

Richard Ernst

I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.

Uri Geller

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. Another school declares th...

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

But despite such energetic mental exercise, the ghosts of time present would intrude and drive his dreams away. It was Ann who had robbed him of his peace, Ann who had once made the present so important and taught him the habit of reality, and when s...

Call for the Dead

I once inscribed the word "Ennui" backwards on my forehead, and I was so bored that I stared at it in the mirror for hours. And at the end of that time, I felt like Sheryl Crow, and I looked like Aleister Crowley.

American Association for the Advancement of Aardvarks Presents: Dear Natalie

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Being and Time

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

The Screwtape Letters

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

Penelope Keith

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

Eduardo Chillida