quickness Quotes

“There are both people who have quick intelligence, and those who must withdraw and take time to think things over.”

“Nobody in the world can dig as quick as a fox!”

“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”

“But there are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.”

“Quick! Back through the cave! Tiptoe! Tiptoe! Tiptoe!”

“In the city if he made a mistake usually there was a way to rectify it, make it all right...Now it was different, and all so quick, all so incredibly quick.”

“The fur flew fast but the feathers flew faster! It only took ten minutes. The kingdom was saved!”

″‘Climb in quick,’ said the pilot and Duffy climbed in while the lorry driver, the boatman, the cyclists, the riders and the farmer all stood and watched.”

“Drac must capture the Gremln of the Groaning Grotto. She knows he is quick, quiet as a spider, and very, very dangerous. She must be so careful...”

“Only the sanctimonious birds that perched on the church’s dome ever saw Smith’s progress entire, and as their beady eyes followed him, the chattered savagely, ‘Pick-pocket! Pick-pocket! Jug him! Jug-jug-jug him!’ as if they’d been appointed by the Town to save it from such as Smith.”