Quickly Quotes

That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good to have one channel of distribution.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

Scale can create value for shareholders; for consumers, who are beneficiaries of better products, delivered more quickly and at less cost; for the businesses that are our customers; and for the economy as a whole.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.