Herb Caen Quotes

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

God's time never stops.

moments bleed together, no span to time

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.

You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

I just want to create situations where people forget time.