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)

    “Mark the babe
    Not long accustomed to this breathing world;
    One that hath barely learned to shape a smile,
    Though yet irrational of soul, to grasp
    With tiny finger—to let fall a tear;
    And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves,
    To stretch his limbs, bemocking, as might seem,
    The outward functions of intelligent man.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.”
    —Don Marquis (1878–1937)