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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my...

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Quote by Aristophanes about intelligence, wine, mind

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it...

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about body

Everything happens quickly, everyone's on the phone. He's...

Everything happens quickly, everyone's on the phone. He's hot, and then, He's not.

Quote by Kevin Bacon

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up...

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

Quote by Michael East about speed

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on...

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.

Quote by Michael East

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the...

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Quote by Sean Connery about wife, chance

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Quote by Bill Gates about mercy, evolution, question, day, world, people

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into...

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about writing, people

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it...

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Quote by Henry Ford about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about things, people

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about things, man, life, time

Clocks will run more quickly during free time.

Clocks will run more quickly during free time.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, time

The dependent who screams loudly when you don't show up...

The dependent who screams loudly when you don't show up quickly, also screams loudly when you do.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes...

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Quote by Brian De Palma

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again...

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Quote by Pericles about nature, man

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about teaching, work

Life is pretty simple: you do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Quote by Leonardo da Vinci about life

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