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)

“Ere I could
Give him that parting kiss which I had set
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father,
And like the tyrannous breathing of the north
Shakes all our buds from growing.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man’s having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)