Quotes About Instant

And she did seem then to go to sleep instantly: the quick flight into oblivion of the chronically unhappy person.

Begin doing what you want to do now.

At rare moments in history, by a series of accidents never to be repeated, arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount, hedonistic, mindless, intent upon the glorious physical instant.

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it's going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.

We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.

Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast.

I was thinking that everything had changed in an instant, changed in a way that neither he nor I might mind.

Surely even a brief time is better than no time?

I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click--you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved

The two of them became an instant couple. Very Romeo and Juliet without the wonky families and tragic double-suicide thing.

What I tried to do was to show certain inner "movements" by which I had long been attracted; in fact, I might even say that, ever since I was a child, these movements, which are hidden under the commonplace, harmless appearances of every instant of our lives, had struck and held my attention.

The instant passed so fast, and when that happens, it goes for good and all you have is a slow lifetime to speculate on revisions. Except time flows one way and drags us with it no matter how hard we paddle upstream.

The instant passed so fast, and when that happens, it goes for good and all you have is a slow lifetime to speculate on revisions.

It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.

I sensed only an instant of apprehension. She never raised an eyebrow at the question.. Such a brave girl.

The stiff-witted and academic seem not to comprehend that it is entirely possible to be ironic and sincere at the same instant, that a knowing tongue in cheek does not necessarily preclude an affectionate glow in heart.

Perché il mio desiderio è stato esaudito nel momento stesso in cui ti ho conosciuta.»