Source: The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Variant: It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Source: The Great Gatsby
Roger McNamee (1956) American musician
Palm Investor Predicts The Day The Pre Will Overtake The iPhone http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/06/AR2009030602562.html in The Washington Post (6 March 2009)
“One morning one of us had run out of black; and that was the birth of Impressionism.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor
Klaus Honnef, Ingo F. Walther, Karl Ruhrberg (1998) Art of the 20th Century: Painting. p. 7
undated quotes
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You
“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
“Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: Literature and Evil
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
"All flesh is one: what matter scores?" in When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed : Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year (1973)
