Instant Quotes

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

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

I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

Instant gratification takes too long.

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

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.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

'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.