#instant

Laughter is an instant vacation. ↗

— Milton Berle

#laughter #vacation

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#found #i #instant #made #millions

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dinner #down #ends #fast #instant

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#blunder #grief #indulgence #instant #life

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening. ↗

— Charles Durning

#asked #because #go #happening #i

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#always #any #end #exists #hence

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ↗

— Eminem

#almost #bars #beat #comes #eight

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#doing #every #instant #part #playing

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed. ↗

— Len Wein

#destroyed #ever #instantly #learn #legend

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