Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Time

The Top Ten

1 I do love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go past. (Douglas Adams)

2 Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. (Shirley Conran)

3 Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. (Douglas Adams, from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)

4 Oh, are there two nine o'clocks in the day? (Tallulah Bankhead)

5 Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

I wish this wasn't true. I forgot to set my alarm yesterday.

6 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

It's one of those things to think about at 3:41 everyday.

7 Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? (Tom Stoppard)

8 Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. (C. Northcote Parkinson)

9 I am a sundial, and I make a botch of what is done much better by a watch. (Hilarie Belloc)

10 And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like s***. (Martin Amis)

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