Quotes: Past

I’ve been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

To establish yourself as a leading man, you’re shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you’re doing.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we’ve seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

I can’t live off of yesterday – that’s in the past.