Jack Finney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.
-- Jack Finney

#Wrong Time
So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.
-- Jack Finney

#Emptiness #Holes #Bigs
Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?
-- Jack Finney

#Book #Envy #Feelings
As Einstein himself pointed out. He said weâ€™re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We canâ€™t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But itâ€™s there.
-- Jack Finney

#Past #Curves #Rivers
It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.
-- Jack Finney

#Sex #Cat #Race
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
-- Jack Finney

#Tunes #Bagpipes #Heard
And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.
-- Jack Finney

#Rain #Wind #Feet

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
There is no wrong time to do the right thing.
There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.
Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!
There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

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