“Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.” YearsHardJobsThreeHoursHalfTakenYears AgoSentencesGet BetterThree YearsHalf Hours Author:Goran Visnjic
“A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.” YearsRunningHoursMorningNew YorkYears AgoMilesBoatBreakfastEnginesPassengersMississippiPhiladelphiaCarriagesBaltimoreDine Author:Oliver Evans
“When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongMomentsSeemsLastsTimeHoursInternetLong TimeHundredYears AgoConstantPhonesContactUnitsMobileTime PassesMobile PhonesUpdatesTrivia Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsHeartLittlesHoursFiveSixEatingYears AgoMeatChickensHeart BeatEating MeatHeart Beating Author:Constance Marie
“It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you to meet somebody." So I get Billy Bob from Malvern, Arkansas and Nikita Mikhalkov from Moscow. It's just two big talents meet. We sat for two or three hours and talked. It was great. He's the real deal, this guy.” WayWantYearsSaidTwoRealBigsGuyThreeHoursDealsTalentDirectorsYears AgoSuitsSatBobI Want YouThis GuyMoscowArkansas Author:Robert Duvall
“When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and it's as simple as that. I want to do it now. I didn't want to three years ago. I was waiting until it felt right. I wanted to get back to falling in love with my guitar again, and hanging out with my guitar like I would a friend.” WantYearsEnoughWantedNightFallThreeFeltWaitingHoursSleepSimpleBedYears AgoFalling In LoveSevenGuitarEightHanging OutGet BackThree YearsHad EnoughEnough Sleep Author:Damien Rice
“When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.” YearsLongWould BeAbleJobsHoursMorningOfficeYears AgoEmbraceStuckHatedTortureLunchComfortingBenchesTedious Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I don't understand why anyone would collect my work. Please understand... it's like writing Our House. It took me an hour, it was 30 years ago, get over it! But people say, No, no, it changed my life, and I don't understand that. I can't take that seriously as a producer of what I consider to be art. If they want to collect it, fantastic. If you see what I saw when I took it and it means something to you, then by all means collect it. If I make some money, um, fine.” PeopleIfsWantWritingYearsMeanArtI CanHouseHoursSawsChangedFinePleaseYears AgoProducersFantasticOver ItGet OverChanged My Life Author:Graham Nash
“Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear that their parents are going to live forever. Showing up at your house at weird hours of the night, smelling all funny, with a bunch of their friends. Hey boy, this is Harold, Cecil and Dicky. Dicky lost his wife about a year ago. I hear Erin made cookies. Where can I put my shoes ? If that doesn't scare you, you're not human.” PeopleIfsYearsHumansMadeNightDiesHouseLostParentHoursBoysForeverWifeNormalYears AgoShoesBunchHeyScareCookiesLive ForeverShowing UpScrewed UpErin Author:Christopher Titus
“I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."” IfsKnowsYearsTwoEnoughUseFoundHoursGoneFourCostThousandYears AgoDollarsKillingHolesTensionWheelsTwo YearsBuriedWarningNutsWireManualsMoronBucketsTippingKilling YourselfOvalTwo Years AgoTractorsTorque Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I haven't been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f - ed off with those lazy bastards in their bed for 18 hours a day, five dishes a day on a menu to choose from, playing soccer every day, going to the gym, watching movies.” YearsHoursFiveHavensBedYears AgoPrisonSoccerLazyGymDishesDocumentariesMenusPlaying Soccer Author:Chelsea Handler
“For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city!” YearsPersonsHoursCitiesSituationExampleTvsKingsYears AgoAffairVideoStationsLos AngelesCopPacksBeatenRiotFlareFlare UpPacks Of Wolves Author:Paul Virilio
“It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.” PeopleYearsLooksDoeImportantStatesHoursLeaderCenturyYears AgoPoliceBullying21st Century20th CenturyFormationParadesMicrophonesSidewalkPolice StatePeople Lie Author:David Frum
“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.” IfsYearsMayHappensTodaySocialHoursWeekMinutesMediaMonthsMessagesMouthsYears AgoTwentiesSocial MediaCustomersHorribleSecondsWord Of Mouth Author:Bill Capodagli
“The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.” FeelsYearsKindLittlesStillsI CanMightHoursHalfProgressTreeBuildingTenDiseaseNewsYears AgoAll ThingsThirdsAbuseComplainingMilesAll KindsScarFeel BetterBentGood NewsJumpingCravingEightyAlrightCrookedLiverTissuesBetter NowOverdoseJumping OffScar TissueLiver Disease Author:Anthony Kiedis
“[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first.” IfsYearsFirstsWellsMeanDoeStillsTwoMomentsEasySidesHoursCarWallCoupleYears AgoNot SureBetter OffBricksBrakeSpeedingBrick Wall Author:Hugh Laurie
“Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.” FeelsYearsMeanDoeStillsTwoMatterHoursAliveNew YorkHundredYears AgoTraditionTownsFranklin Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.” ThinkingYearsHappensHoursDifferencesPartyTvsNewsYears AgoCycles Author:George H. W. Bush
“But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.” KnowsYearsFirstsStillsLightLastsYoungTimeHoursKindnessFlowerHundredYears AgoSilentRollingFirst LoveBlindnessGatheringPassed AwayImpassionedThoughts Of YouYoung Days Author:Thomas Love Peacock
“Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.” IfsYearsLongTwoPlayTodayThreeCoursesHoursTakenBecomingLong TimeYears AgoTwentiesGolfRoundsGolf Course Author:Alister MacKenzie