#instant

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#children #did #get #great #happens

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#character #creating #ever #flash #george

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#history #instant #mankind #strides #taken

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#coffee #handle #instant #learned #lot

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#formula #imagination #instantly #me #need

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. ↗

— Leon Kass

#amount #companies #direct #enormous #instantaneous

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading. ↗

— John M. Ford

#book #certainly #completely #disposable #giving

It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#had #heard #i #instantly #just

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#country #development #event #gradual #hence

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#born #brief #changes #changing #children