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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a… — Alain de Botton
Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar. — Joanna Baillie
We feel the breath of the wind upon our cheeks, we see the dust and the leaves blowing before the wind, we see the vessels… — Reuben Archer Torrey
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of… — Dante Alighieri
Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but… — J.R.R. Tolkien
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social… — R. Buckminster Fuller
O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells. — Helen Hunt Jackson
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed… — Ralph Ellison
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone. — Edwin Way Teale
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly. — Ovid
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall… — Blaise Pascal
It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice… — Jay Sekulow
The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been… — Dave Barry
So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires… — Sherwood Boehlert
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the… — Diana DeGette
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain,… — H. P. Blavatsky
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,… — Alexander Pope
One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the… — Homer
How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite… — Walter Pater
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes… — Daniel Dennett
I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City. When I first… — Frank Miller
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human… — H. L. Mencken

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