Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.
- Margaret Atwood
Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who truly understand the word helpless. They dispense no thought with the calculation of risk and profit, they take no thought for the future, they're forced to spearpoint into the present tense. - Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- Margaret Atwood
Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking. -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)
- Charles Bukowski
Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
- Douglas Coupland
I love you present tense.
- John Green
I love you present tense," I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, "It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me?" I hadand haveabsolutely no confidence that he could hear me. I leaned forward and kissed his cheek. "Okay," I said. "Okay.
- John Green
Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.
- John Green
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
- John Green
A travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there is no present tense, no circulatory system, nor dreams to balance the waking hours. No Rome.
- Anthony Doerr
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
- Joshua Foer
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.
- John Fowles
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
- Art Garfunkel
They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails.
- Myla Goldberg
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
- Colin Quinn
Won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses
- Joni Mitchell
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
- Alex Rodriguez
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
- Mary Doria Russell
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
- Diane Sawyer
That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.
- Lionel Shriver
Let me clarify something for you, Damon. There is the simple
present tense, which is used to describe things that take place in the
present, simple past tense that describes things that occurred in the
past. And then there is the tense that is used to describe the chances
something has to happening. You should know about it, you just
used it. It is called the simply impossible tense.
- Danka V
- Margaret Atwood
Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who truly understand the word helpless. They dispense no thought with the calculation of risk and profit, they take no thought for the future, they're forced to spearpoint into the present tense. - Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- Margaret Atwood
Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking. -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)
- Charles Bukowski
Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
- Douglas Coupland
I love you present tense.
- John Green
I love you present tense," I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, "It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me?" I hadand haveabsolutely no confidence that he could hear me. I leaned forward and kissed his cheek. "Okay," I said. "Okay.
- John Green
Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.
- John Green
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
- John Green
A travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there is no present tense, no circulatory system, nor dreams to balance the waking hours. No Rome.
- Anthony Doerr
A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
- Joshua Foer
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.
- John Fowles
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
- Art Garfunkel
They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails.
- Myla Goldberg
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
- Colin Quinn
Won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses
- Joni Mitchell
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
- Alex Rodriguez
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
- Mary Doria Russell
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
- Diane Sawyer
That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.
- Lionel Shriver
Let me clarify something for you, Damon. There is the simple
present tense, which is used to describe things that take place in the
present, simple past tense that describes things that occurred in the
past. And then there is the tense that is used to describe the chances
something has to happening. You should know about it, you just
used it. It is called the simply impossible tense.
- Danka V
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