Word Prompts
Word Prompts
41) Deja Vu is the mind's way of letting you know that you are in the right place at the right time.
~ Unknown
42) The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. The problem is to find that location.
~ Flannery O’Connor
43) “When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.”
- But there’s no place like that in this world.
- Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.”
~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
44) "Come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned"
~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan: Fairy Tales
45) Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
~ William Ernst Henley, Invictus
46) We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
~ TS Eliot
47) For time is the longest distance between two places.
~ Tennessee Williams
48) Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
~Jack Carroll
49) One day you'll find the right person at the right time and place, then wonder why it took you so long to find the right companion when they've been there all along.
~ Marisa Stein
50) So remember when we were driving driving in your car
Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
~ Tracy Chapman, 'Fast Car'
51) Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
~ Marcus de Sautoy
52) Fate whispers to the warrior
"You cannot withstand the storm"
and the warrior whispers back
"I am the storm"
~ Unknown
53) A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
~ Joan Didion
54) Life isn't about waiting for the right time to come. It's all about doing all the right things in the time that is given to you.
~ Unknown
55) "Alice: How long is forever?
The White Rabbit: Sometimes just one second"
~ Lewis Carrol, Alice In Wonderland
56) I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.
~ Melissa Cox
57) If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
~ Orson Welles
58) "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
59) Your heart knows the way.
Run in that direction.
~ Rumi
60) Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down.
I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure,
I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow
glass, but that comes later.
And the part where I push you
flush against the wall and every part of your body rubs against the bricks,
shut up
I’m getting to it.
~ Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
61) “A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
~ Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
62) Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
~ Camille Pissarro
63) We do not remember days, we remember moments.
~ Cesare Pavese
64) Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~ Octavia Butler
65) The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
~ Maya Angelou
66) Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
~ Sophocles
67) The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
~ Bob Dylan, 'The Times They Are A-Changin''
68) “Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!”
~ Dr. Suess, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
69) Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~ Buddha
70) Well they're never going to tell us just what's coming around the bend,
But there's one thing I can count on,
That's that old man time is not my fucking friend.
~ Jason Webley, 'Old Man Time Ain't No Friend Of Mine'