Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you. - Nicole Krauss I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments. - Sete Gibernau The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! - Fernando Pessoa

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days. - Paulo Coelho I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists. - Paulo Coelho We are responsible for reencountering our Soul Mate who is sure to cross our path. Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days. - Paulo Coelho It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the...

Magic can be found in stolen moments. - Francesca Lia Block For her sex had always been about a borrowed connection. Wires patched together to make a unit long enough to transmit a message. That shared goal, those stolen moments when nothing else mattered but pleasure. When they ended, so did the link. The electricity faded. That wouldn't be the case here. - Cari Quinn

Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled. - Andre Agassi Lord Henry looked serious for some moments, 'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutley and entirely true. - Oscar Wilde I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities. - Jayson Blair It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that. - Kami Garcia some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. - Charles Bukowski Some moments I believ...

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. - Antonin Artaud I don't leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments. - Rick Riordan Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise. - Italo Calvino ... Sometimes -- in the rare moments when she wasn't causing quite serious mental discomfort -- being friends with Zoe was like being knocked dizzy by grace. - Chris Cleave It was one of those rare moments where life delivers on the promises offered by Hollywood... I just stood there and watched her disapp...

Some of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response." (Sylvia Boorstein, from "You Don't Look Buddhist") - Sylvia Boorstein Even more than the cold, I'm frozen by the sadness in his beautiful eyes, deep and true. He squeezes them closed a moment and breathes deeply through his nose. Then, with one swift movement, he cups the back of my neck with a strong hand, pulls my head forward, and presses his lips to mine. He wastes precious moments kissing me, his tongue gliding across my lips, darting at my teeth. I open my mouth and kiss back just as eagerly. - Rae Carson If you are late, you are wasting precious moments of another person's life. Moments they can never get back! - Rowan Coleman We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time. - Cressida Cowell Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to...

I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards. - Bradley Chicho Our moments are music, and sometimes just sometimes we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn't have music, I don't think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn't have special moments, we would never find music. - David Levithan Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. - Henry David Thoreau We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. - Roald Dahl Existence is not pain because of struggle but it is our moments, which we misinterpret it as the struggle. - Santosh Kalwar We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - Georges Duhamel In our moments of pain and trial, I guess we would shudder to think it c...

But Holly, nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs? - Cecelia Ahern nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs? - Cecelia Ahern The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. - Jon Kabat Zinn Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience. - Miley Cyrus Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real. - Ralph Fiennes I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. - Rube Goldberg You know those little moments when an unexpected act or a spoken word affects y...

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity. - Mitch Albom The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone? - Jesse Ball ...it seems to me that life's moments don't have to be so right or not right anymore, so fraught and weighted with "valve", but just of themselves, what they are.. - Chang Rae Lee

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another. - Nicole Krauss A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. - Haruki Murakami Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. - Voltaire She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person. - John Green Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the ...

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness. - Faith Evans The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' - Billy Graham I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey. - Katherine Heigl I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. - Hugh Laurie I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it. - Chris Martin I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man, although I have my moments of volatility and fou rire. - Vladimir Nabokov

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family. - Mario Batali Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night. - Dick Van Dyke If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark. - Ashly Lorenzana I had fought my feelings, guarded them, and bottled them up. I had experienced the happiest moments of my life while at Eastern, all of them with Travis. Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be. - Jamie Mcguire Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments unmarked by care, unseamed by aches or itches, has power to lift himself with his expiring breath and say: I have lived upon this earth and known glory! - Thomas Wolfe

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. - Nicholas Sparks It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade. - Mizu Sahara

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it. - Isabel Allende Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another. - Gloria Estefan I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable. - Marat Safin It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future - sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task. - Viktor E Frankl There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you. - Mother Teresa There are opportunities even in the ...

People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children. - Markus Zusak I think that perhaps there are no such defining moments at all. Beginnings and ends are fluid, long chains of events where some links seem so insignificant and others so very momentous, while in fact all have the same weight. What may appear as a single dramatic moment is just a link between what was before and what comes after. - Linda Olsson But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in. - Darren Shan

A man is made of memories. It is all we are. Captured moments, the smell of a place, scenes played out time and again on a small stage. We are memories, strung on storylines--the tales we tell ourselves about ourselves, falling through our lives into tomorrow. - Mark Lawrence It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down... - Kate Morton