Famous quotes containing the words serving, full and/or time:
“We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon. “I’ll tell you what, sir,” he said; “the talent of this child is not to be imagined. She must be seen, sir—seen—to be ever so faintly appreciated.”... The infant phenomenon, though of short stature, had a comparatively aged countenance, and had moreover been precisely the same age—not perhaps to the full extent of the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but certainly for five good years.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“As if time put an edge
Round the last shape of things
To show them there....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)