Fast Quotes

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored.