Rushing Quotes
220 Rushing quotes by 192 unique authors
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The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night…
— Charles Dickens
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He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs.…
— Joe Hill
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So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On…
— Nicole Krauss
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The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of…
— Robert Frost
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I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love,…
— Nora Ephron
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America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only…
— Nhat Hanh
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It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself…
— Rick Riordan
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Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.
— Tom Robbins
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My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave.…
— John Barth
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I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you…
— Jeannette Walls
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There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and…
— Richelle Mead
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could…
— Richard Wright
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When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the…
— David Sedaris
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How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.
— Graham Swift
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And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot…
— Alexandra Potter
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As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish…
— David Morrell
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Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage…
— Ann Voskamp
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At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of…
— John Steinbeck
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
— Ann Voskamp
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This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment…
— Jandy Nelson
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And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into…
— Orhan Pamuk
Who Wrote These Rushing Quotes
192 authors contributed a total of 220 Rushing Quotes, led by these top contributors: