Calendars Quotes

• Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Anniversary, Sweet

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “A Critic in Pall Mall”, p.227, Oscar Wilde

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• The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Past, Years

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• My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Jealousy, Wife, May

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• I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

  Ed Wynn

  Years, Age, Care

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• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Lakes, Vegas, Athletic

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 14, 2004.

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• I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Wanted, Percent

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• I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

  Caprice Bourret

  Giving Up, Singing, Acting

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  J. M. Coetzee

  July, People, September 11

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Motivational, Being Yourself

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• Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

  Mae West

  Time, Diaries, Someday

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• I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

  Jackson Browne

  Time, Morning, Eye

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• Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Given, Equal

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Funny, Time, Punctuality

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• I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

  Rob Lowe

  School, Kids, Long

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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• The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

  Heidi Klum

  Sports, Exercise, Years

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• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

  Charles Kettering

  New Year, Reality, Old Year

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• There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment

  Martin Luther

  Two, Today, Judgment

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  Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

  Michael Ende

  Littles, Eternity, Hours

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• Dogs, ye have had your day!

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Time

  Homerus, Alexander Pope (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”

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• LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

  Emily Dickinson

  Time, Eye, Looks

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.64, First Avenue Editions

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• More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

  Fred Brooks

  Time, Gone, Causes

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• The Playboy Calendar this year has some tiptop models. Any more top and they'd tip.

  Robert Orben

  Years, Playboy, Models

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.252, Doubleday

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Time, Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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• I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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