Quotes About Quickness

Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refin'd to please;With too much spirit to be e'er at ease;With too much quickness ever to be taught;With too much thinking to have common thought.You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.

With too much quickness ever to be taught, with too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all t hat joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, " she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

Rio Ferdinand is the hardest opponent I have faced - strong and quick. He didn't kick you. He was so classy. I could do all my step-overs, but he would watch the ball and tackle so immaculately. He only got the ball.

You have to understand, it takes a lot of qualities to play linebacker - quickness, tackling ability and sheer force - so you just can't take someone from another position and think they could all of a sudden handle that role.

Forwards are either too tall, and I'm too quick for them, or guards are too small, and I shoot over them.

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

The truth was quicker than a lie, so I told it.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers.

Decisiveness turns slow players into fast ones.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

Great wits jump