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970 Instant quotes by 780 unique authors

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the… — Amy Dickinson
Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is… — Jonathan Gottschall
When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all… — Madonna Ciccone
My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could… — Deborah Butterfield
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific… — Hedi Slimane
It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living. — Jonathan Weiner
It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but… — Vera Nazarian
There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song. — Barbara Broccoli
Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie… — Charles de Lint
Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success… — William Hazlitt
As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What… — Bill Vaughan
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head… — Tom Stoppard
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out, there was instant… — Dolph Lundgren
I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future. — Lady Gaga
You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a… — Jennifer Garner
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no… — William Gibson
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the… — Jeff Greenfield
We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines?… — Joan Collins
Each instant of life is a step toward death. — Pierre Corneille
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. — Quentin Crisp
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. — E E Cummings
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. — Joan Didion

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