Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Theater dates very quickly.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
Our main goal is to serve people as quickly as possible. You need to have towers where people need coverage.
~By Dan White ~
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~
When you do say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
~By Francis Cardinal Spellman ~
Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
~By Elia Kazan ~
It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.
~By Peter Chernin ~
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
~By Pierre Beaumarchais ~
I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly.
~By John Hull ~
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
~By Janet Street-Porter ~
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.
~By Rihanna ~
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
~By Edvard Munch ~
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
~By Jim Henson ~
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
~By Norman Mailer ~
The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
~By Debbie Allen ~
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.
~By Scott Cook ~
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
~By Bobby Farrelly ~
They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world.
~By Tracey Emin ~
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
~By J. R. R. Tolkien ~
The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
~By Orville Wright ~
We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.
~By Ruben Studdard ~
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
~By Diane Cilento ~
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
~By Francis Beaumont ~
I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.
~By Shawn Fanning ~
Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!
~By Steve Irwin ~
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
~By David F. Houston ~
In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.
~By Corin Nemec ~
The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.
~By Marty Robbins ~
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.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.
~By Robert C. Solomon ~
As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
~By William Manchester ~
You can grow apart from people very quickly.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
~By Dean Koontz ~
I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
~By Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf ~
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
~By Wellington Mara ~
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
~By Bill Gates ~
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
~By George Herbert ~
I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.
~By Denis Norden ~
I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.
~By Moira Kelly ~
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
~By John Updike ~
And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
~By Peter Garrett ~
I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
~By Jonny Wilkinson ~
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
~By Roger Clemens ~
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
~By Harry Houdini ~
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
~By John Williams ~
Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.
~By Chris Lowe ~
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
~By Henry Chadwick ~
It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
~By Merle Haggard ~
If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.
~By Richard Shelby ~
I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
~By Mary Catherine Bateson ~
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
~By Audrey Tautou ~
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
~By Peter Medawar ~
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
~By Ahmad Jamal ~
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.
~By Peter King ~
When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.
~By Kathy Najimy ~
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
~By Matt Gonzalez ~
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
~By Juan Ruiz ~
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.
~By Tim McGraw ~
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
~By Randall Terry ~
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
~By Paul Haggis ~
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
~By Larry Holmes ~
I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.
~By Jon Secada ~
There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.
~By Lord Amherst ~
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
~By Brian Eno ~
I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick.
~By Lita Ford ~
Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.
~By Marv Harshman ~
I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.
~By Katie Holmes ~
I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.
~By Holly Hunter ~
I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.
~By Martha Reeves ~
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.
~By Johann Most ~
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
~By Nick Faldo ~
This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.
~By Lisa Snowdon ~
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
~By Diana Ross ~
I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
~By Don Adams ~
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