Famous quotes containing the words time and/or act:
“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)