Specious Present Quotes

#1. Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

George Herbert Mead

#2. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

Meg White

#3. It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Everyone should have a kid. They really put things in perspective. I know a guy can get you one cheap.

Anthony Chapman

#5. The violence between women is unbelievable ... women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Tori Amos

#6. I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

Jessica Szohr

#7. I'm a nice person! I have healthy life drives and goals! I don't drink, I don't smoke. I would never force myself sexually on a blind person!

Woody Allen

#8. Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Nick Frost

#9. Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

Clive James