Elapse Quotes

#1. Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

Paul Davies

#2. Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.

Richard Sherman

#3. Time did not so much elapse as grow less relevant.

Thomas Pynchon

#4. The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before the descendants of the Maillotins seized the Bastille.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#5. A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Love is when you cease hesitating.

Frederic Beigbeder

#7. Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Max Brooks

#8. Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Neil Armstrong

#9. Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

George Phillips Bond

#10. Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

Jon Krakauer

#11. Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

Margaret Atwood

#12. When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Moliere

#13. No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Kamal Ravikant

#14. A marital therapist recently teased me, "Are you writing another book to help women speak up? I'm trying to help my clients be quiet." Then she said more seriously, "Why do people think they have to tell each other everything they feel?

Harriet Lerner

#15. On the off chance my caller would tell me to quit drinking, I positioned myself on the sofa with two six-packs and a bottle of nice scotch. Then I turned on the TV and ate a sandwich made from leftover chicken lo mein. I call it a Chanwich.

David Sedaris