Test Of Time Quotes - Page 2

• Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.

  B. J. Porter

  Writing, Jewels, Talking

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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• Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Reality, Order, People

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• I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

  David Maraniss

  Book, Focus, Want

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• The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

  Colin Hay

  Song, Men, Thinking

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• Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence.

  Mati Unt

  Depression, Children, Book

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• Nothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you're in has any meaning." "There are things that stand the test of time, there are things that last. Like love." "Love theres nothing more fragile or ephereal. Love is like fire on a rainy day: you've got to spend all your time protecting it, feeding it, tending it because if you don't it goes out." "There are some loves that last." "No, what lasts is the pain that comes after love.

  Guillaume Musso

  Pain, Rainy Day, Love Is

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• I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Trying, Tests

  "Chromeo Opener Mayer Hawthorne Gets 'funny Looks' From Fans" by Vaughn Trudeau Schoonmaker, www.mtv.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I want to make music that stands the test of time.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Want, Tests

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• First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.

  Marc Anthony

  Song, Years, Tests

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

  Harold Acton

  Two, Lasts, Fiction

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• It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Would Be, Tests

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• Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.

  Jay Michaelson

  Dream, Roots, Broken

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

  Lewis Gannett

  Our Generation, Frost, Generations

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• When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Thinking, Long

  "Martin Amis: I wasn’t trying to impress my father". Interview with Jane Graham, www.salon.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, I think it's incredibly versatile and gets the job done and I also think it's one of the typefaces that will really survive the test of time beyond the next several decades if not into the next century.

  Khoi Vinh

  Jobs, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Circles, People

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.127, Anchor

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• Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.

  Bradley Joseph

  Bridges, Exhilarating Feeling, Feelings

  Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

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• I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Art, Crazy, Niece

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• In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Passion, Conceited, Men

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Months

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• A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.

  Vance Joy

  Song, Past, Years

  "Vance Joy's imaginary dreams". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2014.

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• Theo Wanne has done it again!!!!!! He has brought a new dimension in mouthpieces that will not only stand the test of time, but will be a benchmark mouthpiece for many, many years to come! The bar has been raised.

  Jeff Coffin

  Years, Bars, Done

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• So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

  Seth Godin

  Long, Tests, Matter

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