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)

“You have been here only a short time, Mr. Barnard. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, breathing this infernal air, absorbing the miasma of barbarity that permeates these walls, especially this chamber.”
—Richard Matheson (b. 1926)

“The time I kill is killing me.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)