Quotes for Present

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Dennis Crowley

The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale.

Timothy Morton

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

Kathleen Turner

Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.

J. K. Simmons

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

James Earl Jones

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

Samuel George Morton

England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.

John Eccles

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

Marisa Berenson

You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they've got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.

Alexandra Kleeman

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Marcel Pagnol

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

James Payn

Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.

Miranda Richardson

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.

Henry Laurens

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Lane Kirkland

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

Amitava Kumar

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Joy Fielding

I've always, always wanted to present my own food show - one that includes a little bit of lifestyle, too. That's my ultimate goal.

Emma Weymouth

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Adam Sedgwick

'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

Jo Nesbo

If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?

Joseph Lister