Instant Quotations

As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.

I do like pop music. It's that certain thing that it gives you: the adrenaline rush, that instant gratification.

A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that instant recognition and at such an early stage, where people totally didn't know my name, but they knew my face immediately.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.

I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. I got to say, though, with smartphones and instant upload of everything, our generation and definitely the next generation coming up, it's going to be hard to act a fool.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.

The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.

'Christian Mingle' is about a young, modern, single woman. She's trying to achieve it all - a successful career, amazing friends, and finding Mr. Right. She stumbles into the world of online dating looking for an instant 'soul mate solution,' but ultimately ends up taking a personal journey transforming her life.

One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.

Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

The Guess girl always combines sensuality with class. She's sexy and voluptuous, but not in a vulgar or cheesy way. Over the years, whether it was when I first saw Laetitia Casta, Eva Herzigova, or Anna Nicole Smith, the common thread when choosing the next Guess girl was an instant feeling in my stomach that she was the one.

I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great.

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

When I meet someone from the army background, there is an instant connection. We live in the best five-star hotels of the world, but outside my home I will be equally comfortable in any army cantonment or army guest house. Telling my friends that my father was in the army was like telling them that he is the second-richest man in the world.

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing, I lived boxing. Boxing was a way of expressing myself because I was not that outspoken.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Only five or six years ago, it would really take until the Wednesday after opening to sense what word-of-mouth was, ... Now, with cell phones and instant messaging, they tell each other immediately. In a time of extraordinary noise, when there are so many different messages being sent to you, vying for your attention, nothing is more important than one person you know saying, 'I saw a movie and it's fantastic.'

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

If we get a win over somebody like that, it gives you instant credibility.

I would remind you that in 1984, after the Mondale -- second Mondale-Reagan debate -- where Reagan clearly won, the instant polls showed that Mondale was the winner.

Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadwinner.

Of all the measures to be taken in building the new socialist countryside, the national fitness project is one that needs the smallest investment but will produce an instant effect.

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.

People want to be fair to athletes, and I think instant replay is one of the best things we've ever done. You want to win, but you don't want to win because somebody made a poor call.

I have heard of no other schools turning down instant replay other than USC,

I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.

I don't know who voted in instant replay, but it about stopped my heart.

I don't know that Johnny wasn't looking at pictures of his kids in that little booth. I'm still an advocate of instant replay, but I've long been an advocate of taking it off the field. Let's take it upstairs. With the current system, I've got to expend a timeout, embarrass the officials and throw a red flag out on the field, let him go in and look at God knows what on the Internet and come out and tell me I didn't get a definitive view to overrule it.

If we don't stop the game and look at it at that point in time on a pivotal play I don't understand it. And I know we have some wrinkles to work out with instant replay, but I'm just bothered that we didn't stop and review it.

If they're going to have instant replay, they should have to let coaches challenge. Otherwise, you have a guy in the booth that nobody knows. He makes decisions on whether a play should be reviewed, and we get no explanation, and you use timeouts that you don't get back.

L.C. should make an instant impact in our program. He is a great shooter and he is blessed with exceptional quickness.

Mobile search is rapidly becoming a logical choice for consumers who want to have instant access to the information they need, whenever they need it.

She brings a lot of energy, which is one thing that you like from a kid coming off the bench. She's like a microwave. She makes things happen. She's instant offense, she's instant defense, she's instant rebounding, which is something that you need.

She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time.

Maggie really gave us a big boost. She picked up that third foul and I was a little worried about it. But we brought her in and she was instant offense for us. That's what seniors do.

Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.

SIMPLE is the direction the whole industry is moving toward for a standard-based instant messaging solution. The winner is obvious.

should recognize the true importance of a single moment in time, the instant when you are fully and completely alive.

So many of today's younger generations live the digital lifestyle. So, it's no surprise to see them maximize broadband options like AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet to enjoy digital music and movies, instant messaging, streaming video, online gaming and more during special occasions -- and throughout the year. We're all experiencing the ongoing evolution -- and convergence -- of communications and entertainment as fast-paced, always-on, go-anywhere technologies, like these, continue to grow roots in the mainstream.

She would be a fantastic person to report on this. She was great at getting instant insights into people. She could sum up a person or a situation in a few words. And this would've been right up her alley.

When there's instant success, there is this expectation that (making it that far) is the norm and that we're always going to be there. What a lot of people don't realize is that the region is a lot tougher than before. Every team that has made it this far has earned it.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Kids 8 and under are still playing with toys quite a bit. Then we see a drop off at 9. Boys have gone to video games. Girls have gone to instant messaging, e-mailing and cell phones. The whole socialization aspect is big.

We are going to offer enterprises an opportunity for real instant collaboration and features that they can't get from the regular phone network.

Frankly, I'm more worried about the violence we do to ourselves and our children by allowing the media to create an expectation of instant gratification.

From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

From a strategic standpoint, the acquisition gave us instant (scale) across the U.S. in the next-day market, which is the fastest growing segment of the industry.

I feel confused about the influence of a computerized society, where there's instant gratification at every level.

I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.

I don't understand why we have instant replay if we don't look at a pivotal play in the game like that. All we have to do is look at it.

I don't think you could ask for a better young manager for a young team. And I think there's an instant respect there as well. The career he's had on the field and winning championships, he's a person if you're around him for about five minutes you know he's going to be successful in whatever he does.

I don't want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It's instant feedback. It's like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, 'It sucks.'

I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll get it over the long term and that's just fine.

For millions of us who love college basketball, having so many games packed into three weeks of nonstop action is both a cause for joy and a real challenge to stay up on all the outcomes. With real-time scores and Instant Answers from MSN Search and FOX Sports, fans are never more than a click away from the cure for their basketball fever.

I happen to have a copy of the indictment in my hand right here and I think the indictment has some problems, ... instant punishment as the result of an indictment.

I anticipate seeing a dip in traditional instant tickets. I don't think it will be a long-term dip.

I don't know why we have instant replay if we won't at least look at it,

Buck Shaw gave the academy instant name recognition because of his time in the NFL,

When instant messaging is like Las Vegas, with all kinds of advertising banners, it's very distracting.

We thought we were quicker than they were and I thought we could wear them down. Defensively, we just had five kids coming at them the whole time. Offensively, Darrell is instant offense, L.J. stepped up tonight and I thought Charles Miller was outstanding.