Standard Time Zone

Famous quotes containing the words standard, time and/or zone:

“We don’t want bores in the theatre. We don’t want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.”
—Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)

“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)