The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.
It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.