Usable Breathing Time

Famous quotes containing the words usable, breathing and/or time:

“It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
That all things have their center in their dying....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“To fair Fidele’s grassy tomb
Soft maids and village hinds shall bring
Each opening sweet of earliest bloom,
And rifle all the breathing spring.”
—William Collins (1721–1759)

“The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)