Time Points Scored

Famous quotes containing the words time, points and/or scored:

“[Tolstoy] discovered—and certainly never realized his discovery—he discovered a method of picturing life which most pleasingly and exactly corresponds to our idea of time. He is the only writer I know of whose watch keeps time with numberless watches of his readers.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself.”
—(B. 1950)