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 ~
How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
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 ~
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
~By Thomas Tusser ~
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
~By George Burns ~
The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.
~By Hal Stratton ~
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
~By Jackson Browne ~
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 ~
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 ~
Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
~By Dave Winer ~
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 ~
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
~By George Sand ~
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
~By Elia Kazan ~
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
~By Scott Bakula ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
~By Edward E. Barnard ~
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 ~
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 ~
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
~By Art Buchwald ~
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
~By Michael Medved ~
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.
~By Roger Staubach ~
The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.
~By Marty Robbins ~
We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
~By Wellington Mara ~
I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.
~By Martha Reeves ~
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 ~
It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.
~By Richard Curtis ~
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
~By Sitting Bull ~
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
~By Caroline B. Cooney ~
With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.
~By George Murray ~
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 ~
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
~By Stella Blum ~
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
~By Beverly Sills ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.
~By Lane Evans ~
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 initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.
~By Steve Crocker ~
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
~By A. E. Housman ~
A million years went by quick.
~By Carlton Fisk ~
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.
~By Dave Holland ~
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
~By Max von Sydow ~
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 ~
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
~By Sophocles ~
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.
~By John M. McHugh ~
I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.
~By Patsy Cline ~
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
~By John Webster ~
I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.
~By Paul Martin ~
We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.
~By Michael Connelly ~
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 ~
QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.
~By Scott Cook ~
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
~By Aristotle ~
The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
~By Omar Bongo ~
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 get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
~By Ja Rule ~
It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.
~By James Blunt ~
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!
~By Rob Morrow ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
~By Steve Forbes ~
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 ~
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.
~By Steve Yzerman ~
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
~By Sylvia Ashton-Warner ~
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
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 emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
~By John Le Carre ~
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 ~
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
~By Ted Shackelford ~
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
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 ~
I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick.
~By Lita Ford ~
I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.
~By Jim Messina ~
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 ~
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 ~
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
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 ~
I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
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 ~
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
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 ~
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
~By Moira Kelly ~
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