Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
David Ricardo

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Karl Von Clausewitz

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
Francis Ford Coppola

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
Henry A. Kissinger

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
Seamus Heaney

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
Edwin Land

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
George Herbert

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
Orville Wright

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
Ben Stiller

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.
Hassan Nasrallah

Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.
David Hackworth

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
John Le Carre

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Pericles

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
Maxim Gorky

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams