Standard Time Zone

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

    “A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size—take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.”
    —Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

    “Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”
    —Louis Aragon (1897–1982)