Splendid Time Quotes

#1. What a splendid time Woo must have had.

Emily Carr

#2. I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. Lo didn't have a splendid time either. He drank something Captain America gave him. Turns out the Cap imposter wasn't too noble, having spiked his booze with roofies. Nerds can be vicious too.

Krista Ritchie

#4. Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

Deborah Eisenberg

#5. Your love holds you for the first time in his arms and you think, How perfect, how splendid, but then, when your love isn't your love any more, you think only, I let him touch me, how horrid, how vile.

William Goldman

#6. We are but dust and shadows ...

Cassandra Clare

#7. There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

Aristotle.

#8. Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again.

James Bryce

#9. Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

Gautama Buddha

#10. We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

Sophocles

#11. The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. It was truly a splendid structure, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his. There

Joseph Heller

#13. When in doubt - reconnoitre. It doesn't do the damnedest bit of good but it gives you time to think, and anyhow French words look and sound splendid in all military contexts.

Berkley Mather

#14. Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals.

Anne Rice

#15. You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.

Robertson Davies

#16. Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

Peter Hook

#17. Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her ...

Louisa May Alcott

#18. The banquet was very splendid, however, though I had a bad cold at the time, I remember, and could only say 'thag you very buch'.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. That which men call virtue is usually no more than a phantom formed by our passions, to which one gives an honest name in order to do with impunity whatever one wishes.

La Rochefoucauld

#20. I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

Elvis Costello

#21. Most Tralfamadorians had no way of knowing Billy's body and face were not beautiful. They supposed that he was a splendid specimen. This had a pleasant effect on Billy, who began to enjoy his body for the first time

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#23. The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

John Calvin

#24. By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper) ...

Louisa May Alcott

#25. I love the weather, I love my '63 droptop Impala, I love the 405, and I love my guys.

Kobe Bryant

#26. When she returned, she smiled and said, "We were at the movies once, and this dork took two phone calls during the film. Later we followed him, and Andre broke both his legs with a baseball bat."
This proved that even the most evil people could occasionally have a socially responsible impulse.

Dean Koontz

#27. I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.

Lady Gregory

#28. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

Jack White

#29. My river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full

Elena Ferrante