Quickly Quotes
2234 quotes by 1767 authors
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
— Sophocles
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I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.
— Denis Norden
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Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within.…
— Anna Quindlen
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I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting…
— Alberto Manguel
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But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert…
— Paula Cole
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I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge…
— Paula Cole
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The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
— Vinton Cerf
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Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.
— Brendan Gill
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Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
— Martin Amis
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow…
— Malcolm Bradbury
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
— Felix Baumgartner
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Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
— Pindar
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If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his…
— Maureen Howard
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My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because…
— Georg Cantor
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It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect…
— Jamie Oliver
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I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
— Rita Ora
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I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops up, I quickly…
— Terry O'Quinn
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Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.
— David Limbaugh
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