“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
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“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”
Ce qui remplit le temps c'est vraiment de le perdre.
Wasting Time, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Drugs
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Source: Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots
“You have not become an entrepreneur to fill in forms full time.”
Slogan used on Rita Verdonk's weblog http://www.ritaverdonk.net/ retrieved 25 November 2007.
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”
Parkinson's Law . It is based on an article published in The Economist (November 1955).
Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957)
Context: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion... Politicians and taxpayers have assumed (with occasional phases of doubt) that a rising total in the number of civil servants must reflect a growing volume of work to be done. Cynics, in questioning this belief, have imagined that the multiplication of officials must have left some of them idle or all of them able to work for shorter hours. But this is a matter in which faith and doubt seem equally misplaced. The fact is that the number of the officials and the quantity of the work are not related to each other at all. The rise in the total of those employed is governed by Parkinson's Law and would be much the same whether the volume of the work were to increase, diminish, or even disappear. The importance of Parkinson's Law lies in the fact that it is a law of growth based upon an analysis of the factors by which that growth is controlled.
