Time Number

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or number:

    “A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)