Quotes for All
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. Ezra Pound
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. Evelyn Waugh
The soul’s house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction – not merely the idea – that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the … Read more
A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change. Evan Esar
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams Evan Esar
It’s easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it’s easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn’t, which is also very convenient for me. … Read more
the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. … Read more
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence. Erwin Schrodinger
The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time Erwin McManus
I’d always thought, ‘When I finish modelling, I’m going to pursue this.’ But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, ‘Well, no, you can’t do it when it’s convenient. If I’m going to do it, I’ve got to do it right now.’ (talking about pursuing her career as a singer) Erica Packer