Rapids Quotes
269 Rapids quotes by 245 unique authors
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
— George Washington
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TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.
— Joss Whedon
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'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the…
— Cecily von Ziegesar
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During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated…
— Martin Filler
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At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep…
— Douglas Coupland
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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take…
— Alexandre Dumas
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A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates…
— James Allen
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now…
— William H. Gass
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As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.'…
— Lauren Weisberger
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if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an…
— Orhan Pamuk
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So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
— Alexandre Dumas
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When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a…
— Margaret Atwood
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The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a…
— Fannie Flagg
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Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?†His throat worked…
— Cheyenne McCray
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And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd…
— Tim O'Brien
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...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But…
— John Steinbeck
Who Wrote These Rapids Quotes
245 authors contributed a total of 269 Rapids Quotes, led by these top contributors: