Short Notice Quotes

• Romance at short notice was her speciality.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Romance

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.547, Delphi Classics

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• What about a Princess Bride?" "Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?

  Ally Carter

  Princess, Men, Six

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• We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

  Thomas Harris

  Heart, Cafes, Gestures

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan

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• I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

  John C. McGinley

  Memories, Given, Rant

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• It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.

  George Washington

  Country, Military, Years

  "Sentiments on a Peace Establishment". Letter to Alexander Hamilton on May 02, 1783. "The Writings of George Washington", edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Volume 26, p. 289, 1938.

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• The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

  Walter Bagehot

  Simple, Bankers, Banking

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."

  Victoria Chang

  New York, Children, Vacation

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