#quick

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #quick




But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.


David Selby


#had #i #idea #no idea #plug

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.


Ernie Pyle


#american #bare #battery #been #brown

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.


Diane Sawyer


#interview #investigation #may #months #profile

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.


J. R. R. Tolkien


#anger #meddle #quick #subtle #wizards

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.


Libba Bray


#crazy #imagination #quick-plot-summary #death

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.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


#because #finds #growing #growing old #me

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.


Max Beerbohm


#character #deep #genius #high #i

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.


Anatoli Boukreev


#back #back up #camp #climbers #descend

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.


Mark Udall


#capacity #congress #globally #iraq #marines

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.


Sergey Brin


#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole