Now And Then Quotes - Page 28

• Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can’t do it anymore.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Use, Body

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.175, Random House

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• Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

  Amelia Earhart

  Play, Joy, Connections

  Amelia Earhart, Jean L. Backus (1982). “Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.

  Woody Allen

  Hey, Littles, Pay

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

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• Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.

  Amelia Earhart

  Men, Independence, Done

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.50, Crown

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• I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  Alice James

  Dream, Giving Up, Reality

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Thinking, Government

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• The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Men, Use

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2248, Simon and Schuster

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• Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

  Angelus Silesius

  Past, Yesterday, Three

  "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius (1657) translated by Julia Bilger, 1944.

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• Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Order, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

  George Carlin

  Lucky, Producers

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• A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Glamour, Folks, Provinces

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”

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• I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy.

  Richard Rohr

  Believe, Reality, Space

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• Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

  Philip Guston

  Light, Painting, Seems

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• I think every coach has to adapt to what they have, because they're what you get. You can't just go out to the player tree and pick all the great ones. That doesn't happen. You get a Barry Sanders every now and then. You get a Billy Sims every once in a while. And when you have it, you adapt to their strengths. Whoever comes in here and whoever has this job needs to adapt and will do that.

  Matt Millen

  Jobs, Player, Thinking

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• Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

  Helen Hunt

  Sorrow, Weapons, Faces

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• Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

  Mu Xin

  Ideas, Advice, Records

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• Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.

  David Letterman

  Stars, Beer, Symphony

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• Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, Men, Voice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1983). “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”, p.39, U of Nebraska Press

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• I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Has Beens, Governors

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.137, Island Press

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• I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Cute Life, Want, Ever After

  Song: Happily Ever After, Album: Banana Wind

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• I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.

  William T. Vollmann

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Race

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• Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

  Richard Powers

  Fall, Past, Simple

  Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Break Up, Marriage

  Quoted in PeopleWeekly, 11 Oct. 1976

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• And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

  Will Wright

  Hunting, People, Treasure

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• Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.

  Ross Perot

  Funny, Success, Comets

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