Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simic

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time.

Andrew Motion

The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

Lisa Unger

I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.

Chad Hurley

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

We are looking at integrating instant messaging in every application we can.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is no nature in an instant.

I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.

I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll get it over the long term and that's just fine.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who voted in instant replay, but it about stopped my heart.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.

I don't know why we have instant replay if we won't at least look at it,

Alice Hoffman

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Anne Michaels

History is the gradual instant

Christie Brinkley

Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room.

Steve Albini

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

Bellamy Young

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Wow. An instant classic, huh? You got a treat, I got a treat, the whole nation got a treat watching those two players.

Mark McKinnon

News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.

Those who live without Him, for even an instant - their lives are rendered useless.

John Roberts

could be instantly reversed when a new administration took office.

Robert Creeley

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

This instant is the only time there is.

James Callaghan

There are no instant solutions.

George R. R. Martin

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.

Jeff Galloway

Some people have a particular race goal, but others are just doing it for lifestyle reasons and need someone to pat them on the back. That pretty instant response you can get on e-mail is quite effective.

We had to have someone with instant credibility. I said, 'I have somebody who would be perfect for the job.' No one disagreed.

Jim Sturgess

When you meet somebody and you have an instant connection - why is that? Maybe you've met before? Maybe you've met in another life? Anything's possible.

Jerry Reinsdorf

The instant the Red Sox won last year, I thought maybe we're next.