Quotes About Hourglasses

#1. There was a much smaller room on the other side. It was merely the size of, say, a cathedral. And it was lined floor to ceiling with more hourglasses that Susan could just see dimly in the light from the big room. She stepped inside and snapped her fingers.

Terry Pratchett

#2. A soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.

William Joyce

#3. The similarity between space and time is limpid enough that we routinely use space to represent time in calendars, hourglasses, and other time-keeping devices. And the cognitive similarity also shows up in everyday metaphors where spatial terms are borrowed to refer to time.

Steven Pinker

#4. Her computer's fan whirred to life, blowing warm air onto her fingers. Two flame-red slits glowed from the monitor. The speakers boomed. "I lived! I died! I live again!"
Olivie had dealt with blue screens, frozen hourglasses, and even the odd hardware conflict back in the day. This was new.

Choong JayVee

#5. My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. Imagination is intelligence having fun.

Albert Einstein

#7. This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood. (10, October, 1942; Handwritten inscription on a photograph)

Anne Frank

#8. Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air.

Robert Frost

#9. P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.

Marcel Dzama

#10. If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

Lenny Wilkens

#11. But something doesn't feel right. My mind is attempting sabotage, refusing to find the beauty, the fun, the exciting in watching what are essentially pretty explosives.

Louise Gornall

#12. Satan was the originator of sin

Wayne Grudem

#13. Sometimes you have to put your hand up in front of the bullshit wagaon and say, Enough!

Charlie Carillo

#14. The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

Danny McBride

#15. The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.

Tahir Shah