#rushing

And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#death #dustfinger #death

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#goals #rushing #death

...his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes.. ↗

— James Joyce

#wonderful-imagery #dreams

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. ↗

— Orville Wright

#case #crushing #experiences #experiments #gliding

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. ↗

— Paul Getty

#airplane #before #catch #couples #into

When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#any #each #faster #feels #fill

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#comes #experience #fun #had #i

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane. ↗

— George Osborne

#hard #important #important thing #least #political

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blogs #evanescent #got #just #look

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#against #been #brushing #create #hasn