Past Quotes

• I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Home
  • Feels
  • Cooks

• My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'

  

  Lisa Tuttle
  • People
  • Past
  • Risk

• I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby, because whatever they are here for, it is not to help build an encyclopedia.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People
  • Different
  • Help

• They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Life
  • Sky
  • Fireworks

• Most of my influences are from the past.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Past
  • Influences

• When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Past
  • Comedy
  • Adventure

• Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Right
  • Mistakes
  • Accept

• The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Water

• Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.

  

  Andrew Haigh
  • Past
  • Events
  • Defines

• You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Past

• Never tripping off the past, I would rather never mind 'em/'Cause only fools trip over something that be behind 'em

  

  Fabolous
  • Mind
  • Past

• I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.

  

  Emilia Clarke
  • Past
  • Random

• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

  

  Brooks Atkinson
  • God
  • Past

• We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

  

  Amanda Harlech
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• I have had fear in the past, yes. I've learned to fight it. But I still have my moments. I just have to remind myself that fear is all within your mind, and that you're only holding yourself back when you give in to it. Even fear of success can be scary.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Fear

• Break through the bonds of your past.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Past
  • Bonds

• The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • High
  • Past
  • Small

• We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • Mother
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Remember
  • Past

• I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • World
  • School
  • High

• Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Past
  • Impossible
  • Chaos

• When I re-read my past work I can see a development to such an effect, indeed, that some of them no longer seem to be any part of me.

  

  Elizabeth Jennings
  • Work
  • Past

• All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Future
  • Change
  • Pain

• In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators.

  

  John Battelle
  • Past
  • Technology

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