Immediate Quotes

831 quotes by 715 authors

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology… — Margaret Atwood
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in… — Margaret Atwood
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion. — Ginger Baker
I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how… — Joe Biden
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. — Julian Bond
I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want. — Jeff Bridges
I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered… — Tim Burton
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need… — Buzz Aldrin
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. — George Carlin
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate. — Nick Cave
I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience. — Kirstie Alley
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back to about 250,000 to 300,000,… — Pat Buchanan
The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend… — Barbara Jordan
Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of… — Ronald Reagan
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than… — Alexander Hamilton
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival… — Jim Wright
I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take… — Maya Angelou

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