Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

You can not define being exactly on time.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

I can never be on time anywhere.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

I am working never to be late again.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

Punctuality is the thief of time

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.