Instant Quotes - Page 29

• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Funny, Sex

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• Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Mind, Politics

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.276, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

  Joan Didion

  Life, Dinner, Ends

  Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.4, Vintage

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• Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Grief, Grieving

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.378, Delphi Classics

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• Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

  Fred Durst

  Done, Want, Offensive

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• Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.

  Sylvia Earle

  Past, Sea, Sky

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Years, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Instant gratification takes too long.

  Carrie Fisher

  Sarcastic, Women, Humor

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

  Bobby Flay

  Temperature, Meat, Thermometers

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

  Lady Gaga

  Cameras, Film

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• You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

  Jennifer Garner

  Fashion, Scotch, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

  William Gibson

  Money, Eye, Blue

  William Gibson (1987). “Count Zero”, p.24, Penguin

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• This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Art, Evil, Joy

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• "Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Age, Doe, Stones

  "WAR ON TERROR: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS on why peace-lovers must welcome this war". Christopher Hitchens, The Mirror, November 15, 2001.

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• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Creativity, Mean

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• Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

  Mick Jagger

  War, Patriotism, Reactions

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• The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

  Franz Kafka

  Travel, Taken, Two

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Suffering, Realization

  "How I Learned To Stop Suffering" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Laughing, Helping

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• E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Reading, Minutes

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• But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

  Armistead Maupin

  Communication, Opportunity, Phones

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• I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

  Martina McBride

  Thinking, Fame, Difficult

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• Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.

  Lea Michele

  Growing Up, Makeup, Paris

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• I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.

  Michael Moore

  Firsts, Fans, Albums

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• My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

  Michael Moore

  Impact, Ideas, People

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