Quick Quotes

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A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… — E. M. Forster
Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,â€” You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat....… — James Russell Lowell
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. — Hilton Als
The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix — Michael Frost
We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes. — Ovid
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay. — Thomas Tusser
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. — Agnes Repplier
I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life. — Ben Schwartz
Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody… — Sam Peckinpah
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana
Men of cold passions have quick eyes. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be… — Raymond Chandler
The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again,… — Milan Kundera
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? — Mary Wollstonecraft
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them. — Richard M. Nixon
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a… — Octavio Paz
Quick. Name ten dead redheads. — Douglas Coupland
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.… — Joyce Carol Oates

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