Brian Selznick Quotes

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then from lying there broken; always the same day, which comes around again like clockwork. It begins with the day before the day before, and then the day before, and then it's the day itself. A Saturday. The breaking day. The day the butcher comes.

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

I hate time. It never does what you want it to.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.