Quotes About Brisk

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

McCrodden's brisk, business-as-usual way of speaking chilled Poirot. It lent an air of objectivity to his words, as if he was merely conveying the plain and uncontroversial facts.

This hotel, this lobby, is precisely what she wants--the cool nowhere of it, the immaculate non-smell, the brisk unemotional comings and going's. She feels, immediately, like a citizen of this place. It is so competent, so unconcerned.

She's still as fast as a whip.

There came a brisk knock on the door that internally connected the two rooms. Seth hustled over. "What's the password?" "Passwords are for sissies," Warren's muffled voice responded. "Works for me," Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it. "The

Pilots are never 'peachy,' girl. We're spirited." "Or," I added, "briskly energized by the prospect of dealing death to the coming enemies." "Or that," Cobb said. "If you're psychotic.

By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.

He was exquisite; almost too good to brisk, and yet, someone, somewhere, had surrendered him, this lovely son, for our refreshment. I could have wept at the gesture.

It's hard to walk briskly at this time of year; the accelerating pace of unfolding spring slows my own. I repeatedly stop- to watch what's moving. Soon the torrent of migrants will completely overwhelm my ability to keep up with all the changes. But it's easy to revel in the exuberance and the sense of rebirth, renewal.

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Her telephone voice was brisk and without any tone at all.

I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

A cool breeze laden with iodine blew in from the sea.

Mr. Carlisle became brisk. Baby, he said, as Napoleon might have said to one of his Marshals when instructing him in his latest plan of campaign . . .

Doctors tend to enter the arenas of their profession's practice with a brisk good cheer that they have to then stop and try to mute a bit when the arena they're entering is a hospital's fifth floor, a psych ward, where brisk good cheer would amount to a kind of gloating. This is why doctors on psych wards so often wear a vaguely fake frown of puzzled concentration, if and when you see them in fifth-floor halls.

We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.

For he counteracts the Devil, who is Death, by brisking about the life.

For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest. For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

Eliza's voice snapped like a freshly washed sheet hung to dry in a brisk wind.

soft, moist air and bouts of low pressure blamed for headaches and illnesses and despair. A brisk autumn wind blew off the Alps

And Bharadvája, nothing slow

Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.