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88,439. As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. (Silence & Moment) John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
86,530. We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Remember & Moment) Cesare Pavese
3,154. I’m coming back in … and it’s the saddest moment of my life. (Space & Sad & Moment) Ed White, first American spacewalk Gemini 4 mission 3 June 1965
118,831. In everyone’s life there are real moments when the world seems to stand still. A second seems like a thousand years. A single heartbeat becomes an infinity. Rarer still are moment when not just one person but a whole nation stops, holds it beath, hopes, prays. When dreams unite for a split second, a decisive moment when everything could change. (Football & Moment) One Night in Turin, 2010, opening commentary
10,472. ‘Every moment must count.’ (Artists: Da Vinci & Moment) Inside The Mind of Leonardo starring Peter Capaldi, Sky Arts 2013
81,252. A shag is just a shag; but a moment you will always have. Rab C Nesbitt: Commons, BBC 1997
81,253. There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
81,254. If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. Jim Carrey, 60 Minutes November 2004
81,255. Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? (Moment & Crisis)
T S Eliot, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock 1917
81,256. But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,
The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,
The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
Be remembered; involved with past and future. (Moment & Remember) T S Eliot, Four Quartets, Burnt Norton 1935
81,257. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,
For the pattern is new in every moment
And every moment is a new and shocking
Valuation of all we have been. ibid. East Coker 1940
81,258. For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of time,
The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts. ibid. ‘The Dry Salvages’ 1941
81,259. What moments divine, what rapture serene. Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine 1935
81,260. some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about. Charles Bukowski, War All the Time
81,261. If the whole world I once could see
On free soil stand, with the people free
Then to the moment might I say
Linger awhile ... so fair thou art. (Moment & Freedom) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
91,095. O aching time! O moments big as years. (Time & Moment) John Keats, Hyperion: A Fragment
83,825. There’s not enough time in the day to have a special moment with everyone. (Office & Moment) The Office US: Goodbye, Michael II s7e23, Michael’s advice to employees
84,052. You have the leading arm of Tommy Smith – his right arm raised. And you have the left arm of John Carlos and it forms that nice arc shape that shows the unity of black America. So it becomes an aesthetic moment. (Olympics & Black Culture & Moment) Professor Ben Carrington