Quickness Quotes
50 quotes by 47 authors
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Quickness is the essence of the war.
— Sun Tzu
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Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina…
— Samantha Stosur
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Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.
— Adrian Belew
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I'm high off the indo creepin' with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.
— Dr. Dre
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The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia…
— Peter D. Kramer
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There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would…
— E. M. Forster
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The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power…
— Thomas Campion
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The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have…
— Evander Holyfield
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
— Mark Rothko
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I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.
— Hope Solo
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught,…
— Alexander Pope
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Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful…
— Isaac Asimov
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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others…
— Jane Austen
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The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the…
— Jane Austen
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I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that…
— Russell Brand
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No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the…
— Connie Willis
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I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,â€Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair,…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a…
— Don DeLillo
Who Wrote These Quickness Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 50 Quickness Quotes, led by these top contributors: