Quick Quotes - page 2

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge. (Haile Gebrselassie)
I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something. View quote
Louis C.K.
People get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don't know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don't know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else. View quote
Jennifer Beals
It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can. View quote
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp. View quote
Roger Ebert
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! - that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms - nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss? View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so. View quote
Jane Jacobs
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence. (Stanislaw Ulam)
Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death – lunch – death, death, death – afternoon tea – death, death, death – quick shower ...' " View quote
Eddie Izzard
All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it. View quote
Paolo Bacigalupi
That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. View quote
Matthew Arnold
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity. View quote
Dean Koontz
Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you. View quote
John Scalzi
Don't be too quick To break bad habits: better stick, Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic. View quote
Bret Harte
In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick! View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. (John Dos Passos)
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better. View quote
Larry Niven
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. View quote
George Chapman
Be quick to learn and wise to know. View quote
George Burns