Uptake Quotes

#1. Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Stella Gibbons

#2. Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

Max Baucus

#3. I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. When you falter, all eludes.
This is a seasick way,
this almost/never touching, this
drawing-off, this to-and-fro.
Subtlety stalks in your eyes,
your tongue knows what it knows.
I want your secrets - Iwillhave them out.
Seasick, I drop into the sea.

Adrienne Rich

#5. It's not rash," she said, a fiery tone to her words. "I've waited two years for him to realize how I felt. He's just a little slow on the uptake.

Ronie Kendig

#6. If Everything's a Rush, Nothing Is

Miles Anthony Smith

#7. Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern.
- Clay to Elena

Kelley Armstrong

#8. The jailer is you. You're the only person who has the key to your cell. You're the only one who can open the door that leads to freedom.

Norman Vincent Peale

#9. I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

Barbara Corcoran

#10. The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's feeling of complete control.

Richard Price

#12. Aim high, hit high.

Barbara Delinsky

#13. The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

Ethan Zuckerman

#14. The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

Steve Erickson

#15. Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Have you ever felt as if other people were smarter than you? Quicker on the uptake? Zombies feel this way every day.

Scott Kenemore

#17. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).

Karolina Achirri

#18. Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake.

Constant Lambert

#19. Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

Bob Newhart

#20. Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss.

Ian Stewart

#21. The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

Barry S. Strauss

#22. The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

Henry Rollins

#23. Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#24. So many tankers come down with maintenance problems all at once. I do not think that the press is telling us the whole story. Then again, maybe they are just a little slow on the uptake. The truth will reveal that Allah has truly blessed us.

Christian F. Burton

#25. Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.

Ravi Zacharias

#26. God has a plan for everyone he created and none of his creations is meant to be purposeless. Every human being for that matter was brought forth with a specific and unique duty to uptake while he lives on earth.

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. No society of nations, no people within a nation, no family can benefit through mutual aid unless good will exceeds ill will; unless the spirit of cooperation surpasses antagonism; unless we all see and act as though the other man's welfare determines our own welfare.

Henry Ford II

#28. As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.

Tiny Tim

#29. I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise ... it's a consistent reward for victory!

Sasha Azevedo