I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'
~By Kevin Costner ~
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
~By Bill Bruford ~
Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
~By Dee Hock ~
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 ~
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.
~By John Engler ~
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
~By Bob Bartlett ~
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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 ~
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
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 ~
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
A million years went by quick.
~By Carlton Fisk ~
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
~By Aaron Klug ~
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
~By Julius Streicher ~
All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
~By Debbie Allen ~
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
~By John Fahey ~
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
~By Plutarch ~
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
~By George W. Bush ~
This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.
~By David Kay ~
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 offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
~By Max von Sydow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.
~By Rio Ferdinand ~
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 ~
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
~By Liam Neeson ~
In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.
~By Mike Johanns ~
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
~By Michael East ~
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
~By Kelly Jones ~
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 ~
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
~By Ogden Nash ~
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
~By Thomas R. Dewar ~
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
~By Steve Jobs ~
I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.
~By Bobby Rahal ~
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 ~
If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.
~By Sherwood Boehlert ~
You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
~By Yukihiro Matsumoto ~
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 ~
If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
~By Sam Mendes ~
It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
~By Daryl Gates ~
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
~By Barber B. Conable, Jr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
~By Gordon Moore ~
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
~By Paul Bryant ~
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.
~By Glenn Ford ~
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
~By Russell Hoban ~
You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.
~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
~By Georges Pompidou ~
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 ~
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
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 ~
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
~By Horace ~
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 ~
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.
~By Adrian Belew ~
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~
Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'
~By Craig Kilborn ~
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
~By Robert Southwell ~
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 ~
I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.
~By Elisabeth Rohm ~
Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
~By Bill Mumy ~
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
~By Ernest Hello ~
I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.
~By Frank Bruno ~
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
~By Thom Yorke ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.
~By Steve Case ~
I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
~By Roy Ayers ~
There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
~By William J. Slim ~
It's a tough marketplace right now... It is very compressed... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.
~By Peter Chernin ~
I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
~By Karen McDougal ~
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 ~
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
~By Yoko Ono ~
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 ~
I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.
~By David Caruso ~
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