temporal significance Quotes

Every second is of infinite value.

Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.

The value of actions lies in their timing.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance. ..

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.