Instant famous quotes

There is no nature at an instant.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Nature #Instant

The path of your life can change in an instant.
-- Ann Brashares

#Path #Instant

History is the gradual instant
-- Anne Michaels

#Instant

I need instant gratification.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Needs #Instant Gratification #Instant

Id love to go back and do theater. Theres nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
-- Bellamy Young

#Connections #Theater #Instant

Rock & roll is instant coffee.
-- Bob Geldof

#Coffee #Rocks #Instant

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?
-- Carol Vorderman

#Children #Instant

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
-- D.T. Suzuki

#Reality #Recognition #Instant

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
-- David Deida

#Giving #Enlightenment #Instant

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

#Emotion #Dangerous #Instant

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
-- Don Marquis

#Forever #Instant

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.
-- Donald Barthelme

#Dripping #Instant Gratification #Instant

When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.
-- Donalyn Miller

#Book #Instant

It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.
-- Dorothy Koomson

#Trying #Instant

I turn bullish at the instant my buy stop is hit, and stay bullish until my sell stop is hit.
-- Ed Seykota

#Turns #Instant

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

#Instant

Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.
-- Eileen Caddy

#Matter #Importance #Instant

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
-- Ella Maillart

#Looks #Certain #Instant

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.
-- Emeli Sande

#Song #Instant

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
-- Gao Xingjian

#Reality #Perception #Instant

They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
-- Gao Xingjian

#Dream #Instant

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
-- Haim Ginott

#Comeback #Insult #Instant

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson

#Eternity #Photograph #Instant

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
-- J. J. Abrams

#Age #Entitlement #Instant

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.
-- Jack London

#Instant

There are no instant solutions.
-- James Callaghan

#Instant #Solutions

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
-- James Earl Jones

#Magic #Enough #Instant

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
-- James Gleick

#Cyberspace #Draws #Instant

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
-- James Huneker

#Art #Eternity #Instant

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant
-- Jason Behr

#Able #Instant

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?
-- Jason Collins

#Why Not #Instant

Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.
-- Jess Walter

#Moments #Instant

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.
-- Jim Dale

#Talent #Stardom #Instant

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
-- John Thorn

#Instant

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
-- Jonathan Tropper

#Disappear #Instant #Feels

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.
-- Jude Deveraux

#Want #Instant Gratification #Instant

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.
-- Julian Barbour

#Moving #Moments #Instant

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
-- Keith Haring

#Art #Levels #Instant

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
-- Lady Gaga

#Cameras #Film #Instant

Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.
-- Larry Winget

#Priorities #Important #Instant

your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.
-- Laura Kasischke

#Forever #Lasts #Instant

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
-- Lauren Bacall

#Past #Instant

Perhaps this very instant is your time.
-- Louise Bogan

#Instant

You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.
-- Manu Joseph

#News #Kind #Instant

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
-- Mark Rothko

#Intimacy #Creation #Instant

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.
-- Mia Wasikowska

#Accents #Instant

Fashion is instant language.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fashion #Language #Instant

Democracy is not an instant coffee.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#Coffee #Democracy #Instant

James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why,
-- Montgomery Clift

#Profound #Dean #Instant

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
-- Nathalie Handal

#Home #Writing #Instant

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Substance #Instant

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.
-- Niklas Zennstrom

#Voice #Online #Instant

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
-- Plutarch

#Elude #Instant #Offers

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
-- Robin G. Collingwood

#Artist #Paradoxical #Instant

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.
-- Robin Lee

#Long #Instant #Grows

Life is an eternal instant. Chronological time does not exist.
-- Samael Aun Weor

#Doe #Life Is #Instant

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.
-- Seungsahn

#Steps #Truth Is #Instant

I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.
-- Sheila Nevins

#Air #Instant

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities,
-- Sonja Lyubomirsky

#Exercise #May #Instant

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.
-- Susan Abulhawa

#Crush #Brain #Instant

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
-- Viktor E. Frankl

#Instant #Humans

Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.
-- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

#Destiny #Speak #Instant

If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.
-- Wayne Thomas Batson

#Tanks #Energy #Instant

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
-- William James

#Fields #All Time #Instant

One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
-- Wumen Huikai

#Eternity #Instant

One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.
-- Wumen Huikai

#Men #Eternity #Instant

There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.
-- Anant Agarwal

#Feedback #Instant #Huge

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
-- Caitlin Rose

#Buying #Instant #Itunes

Life is so fast and it can change in an instant.
-- Elaine Cassidy

#Life Is #Instant

Keeping the ship on course will be the first and most difficult order of business. Everyone is going to be piloting their organization through very high waters where things can change in an instant.
-- Grant David McCracken

#Water #Difficult #Instant

When I go to American cities and speak to American audiences about Karachi, I am able to draw their own wonder and consternation about the cities they live in as an entry point to this other faraway, instant city.
-- Steve Inskeep

#Wonder #Speak #Instant

Red lipstick is instant glamour.
-- Charlotte Tilbury

#Red Lipstick #Glamour #Instant

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.
-- Rob Brown

#Judging #People #Instant

The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.
-- Emmett Shear

#Detectives #Should #Instant

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.
-- Rose Wilder Lane

#Past #Remember #Instant

Sometimes forgiveness is instant, but sometimes it takes time.
-- Virginia H. Pearce

#Sometimes #Instant #Take Time

You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.
-- Madchen Amick

#People #Sometimes #Instant