Numbered Days Quotes

• Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Death

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

  John Green

  Life, Stars, Grateful

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

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• There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

  Iron & Wine

  Endless

  Song: Passing Afternoon, Album: Our Endless Numbered Days, 2004

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• My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

  John Green

  Littles, Faults, Infinity

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• I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

  John Green

  Grateful, Numbers, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.

  Clive Barker

  Dog, Fear, War

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• I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

  Sigrid Undset

  Education, Father, School

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• When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

  Ivor Novello

  Theatre, Ordinary, Firsts

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• The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

  Russell Baker

  Ruins, Authority, Newspapers

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• The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

  Tom Stoppard

  Science, Technology, Self

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

  Tom Shales

  Media, Television, Matter

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