Yesterday Quotes

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday"

Dennis Gabor, Scientist

"My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday"

Roddy McDowall, Actor

"I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too"

Sophie Marceau, Actress

"It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow"

Frank Dane

"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling"

George Murray, Poet

"We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle"

Allan Carr, Director

"I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

"We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow"

Fulton Oursler

"I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty"

Jimmy Dean, Actor

"It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today"

James Howell, Writer

"There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday"

Otis Blackwell, Musician

"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know"

Kate Seredy, Writer

"Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change"

Robert Hewison, Historian

"She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!"

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Author

"Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor"

Anthony Edwards, Actor

"Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday"

Amy Weber, Actress

"And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!"

Jan Brewer, Politician

"I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

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