Alan Parsons (1948) audio engineer, musician, and record producer from England
"Time", from the album The Turn Of A Friendly Card. (Written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.)
Quotes from songs
Source: Boris Groĭs, David A. Ross, Iwona Blazwick (1998). Ilya Kabakov, p. 22
Alan Parsons (1948) audio engineer, musician, and record producer from England
"Time", from the album The Turn Of A Friendly Card. (Written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.)
Quotes from songs
“Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.”
Poul Anderson book There Will Be Time
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 175)
“The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.”
Stephen Baxter book Ring
Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 35 (p. 891; closing words)
“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
To Jacques Mercanton, on the structure of Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce: The Critical Heritage (1997) by Robert H. Deming, p. 22
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," from The Weary Blues (1926)
“Time flows away like the water in the river.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher