Chronological Order Quotes

If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?

Every song in 'Groundhog Day' works to forward the story in a chronological, narrative sense, to illuminate the state of mind of the person singing it and comment on the world.

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books.

Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

In a weird way, if you look at all the 'Apes' movies, they all seem like different stories in the same universe. 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' is definitely a continuation, but the other ones jump all around chronologically.

History happens all around us.

I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

To me, we're living in a non-linear world... But the truth is we are linear creatures. Everything unfolds one after the next. And that's the thing we've become disconnected from.

I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop.

Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.

I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.

I don’t like trying to predict the future. I am a historian. I have enough trouble predicting the past.

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.

My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and all the logistical purposes. It also helps with performance and the journey of each character, but I also think it's good for the director and everyone [else] involved.

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.