Famous quotes containing the words time, pad and/or system:
“Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time if not with some delight?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)