Rapid Fire Quotes

#1. In the middle of his rapid-fire dictatioin he said softly, without pausing, "When the sun is on your hair, it shines like spun gold," and launched back into his letter. Lauren, who had inadvertently taken half of the compliment down in shorthand, gave him a killing glance, and he chuckled.

Judith McNaught

#2. In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor.

Charles Duhigg

#3. Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.

James Rosenquist

#4. After Princeton, the years seem like a blur, but the days seem more like rapid fire. - Donald Rumsfeld in Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

#5. Heads half-glued together, Abby and Lara had engaged in rapid-fire chitchat as they all hurried across campus.

Madeleine Roux

#6. And this song," Doug said as the CD advanced to the next track, "Makes me think about how Stephen's love completes my soul." Rapid-fire drumming led into lyrics describing the satisfaction one felt when pointing a Glock at a filthy puta.

Valerie Z. Lewis

#7. I'd like to be able to show 'Rapid Fire' to my dad. I'm that proud of what we've accomplished within the framework of the action-adventure formula.

Brandon Lee

#8. Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.

Charles Duhigg

#9. Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

Bill O'Reilly

#10. Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.

John C. Maxwell

#11. My goldfish is swimming around all excited inside the fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a Valium in its water.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

Ernst Troeltsch

#13. On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.

Ignazio Silone

#14. Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation
and the round key of the rapid universe,
come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,
come before its petals are consumed.

Pablo Neruda

#15. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Gautama Buddha