I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
~By Debbie Allen ~
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
~By Haniel Long ~
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 ~
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
~By Tony Hsieh ~
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 ~
A million years went by quick.
~By Carlton Fisk ~
Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.
~By George Armstrong Custer ~
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 market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
~By Henry Ford ~
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
~By Luc Ferrari ~
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 ~
We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
~By Martha Beck ~
As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.
~By Goh Chok Tong ~
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
~By Julius Caesar ~
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
~By Julian Bond ~
I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly.
~By John Hull ~
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
~By Mary Catherine Bateson ~
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
~By Edwin Land ~
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
~By Peter Bichsel ~
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
~By E. T. Bell ~
I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.
~By Neil Schon ~
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
~By Dee Hock ~
Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly communicate with people affected by and interested in the mobilization and deployment of military people.
~By Michael Burgess ~
We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
~By Rob Simmons ~
You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.
~By Michael East ~
Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.
~By Delia Smith ~
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
~By Margaret Walker ~
The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
~By Joseph Haydn ~
Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.
~By Perry Como ~
But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.
~By Robert Patterson ~
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
~By Wellington Mara ~
Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.
~By Sarah Ferguson ~
I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.
~By Alain Prost ~
I'm not sure you can do anything quickly or easily with the North.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate.
~By Robert Asprin ~
Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
~By Patrice Leconte ~
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
~By Pericles ~
The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.
~By Alison Moyet ~
It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them.
~By Megan Fox ~
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
~By Elias Canetti ~
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
~By John Shadegg ~
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.
~By Mike Figgis ~
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 ~
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
~By Hypatia ~
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
~By Milla Jovovich ~
I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
~By Frank Shorter ~
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
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 ~
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
~By Bernard Law Montgomery ~
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
~By Jane Austen ~
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
~By Pieter Zeeman ~
My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
~By Paul Gleason ~
I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
~By Paul McCartney ~
When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
~By Lou Brock ~
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
~By Paul Haggis ~
Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.
~By David Beckham ~
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
~By Joe Scarborough ~
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
~By Dennis Farina ~
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
~By Stanley Baldwin ~
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
~By Stanley Baldwin ~
Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
~By Anthony Doerr ~
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.
~By Sean Connery ~
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
~By Roy Wood ~
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
~By Bernard Malamud ~
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
~By Thomas R. Dewar ~
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Theater dates very quickly.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
~By Doug Coupland ~
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
~By George W. Bush ~
A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
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 ~
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
~By Matthew Perry ~
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
~By Kit Williams ~
The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.
~By Charles J. Givens ~
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
~By John Webster ~
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
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 ~
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