Quick Quotes - page 3

There's a long goodbye, and it happens every day, when a passerby invites your eye to come away. Even as you smile a quick hello you let her go, you let the moment fly... Too late you turn your head, you know you've said the Long Goodbye. (Johnny Mercer)
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives. View quote
John Muir
[I'm] an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life. View quote
Heath Ledger
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Everyone's quick to blame the alien. View quote
Aeschylus
Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones. View quote
Martin Scorsese
That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far." View quote
Plutarch
I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see... View quote
Angus Young
Mine enemy is growing old,- I have at last revenge. The palate of the hate departs; If any would avenge,-Let him be quick, the viand flits, It is a faded meat. Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'T is starving makes it fat. View quote
Emily Dickinson
If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare. (Denis Diderot)
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together. View quote
Elizabeth Hardwick
If it is necessary we will find a quick answer and it will not be the way the United States expects it. It will be an answer that devalues the 'Star Wars' program. View quote
Sergei Akhromeyev
I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt. View quote
Ben Affleck
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button. View quote
Brené Brown
Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. View quote
Victor Hugo
The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle. View quote
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick. View quote
Brian Eno
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also. View quote
Marcel Proust
If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing. (Dan Brown)
Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream.... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus. View quote
Michael Haneke
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says How nice to see children running on the grass The second tear says How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. View quote
Milan Kundera
The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley