Whizzing By Quotes

#1. The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness.

John Steinbeck

#2. By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.

George Burns

#3. Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

Eric Johnston

#4. The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.

Lester Holt

#5. I spent the rest of my day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. I felt like a circus knife thrower's target. If I held my mind immobile, I might avoid being hit by the blades whizzing by my head.

Amy Plum

#6. Ronnie offered, "I don't want my life to pass me by."
Filling Ronnie's glass again, Sissy promised, "It won't."
"It's already started. It's whizzing by like a freight train.

Shelly Laurenston

#7. Lizzing is a combination of laughing and whizzing.

LIZ

#8. There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

Peter Ackroyd

#9. Don't get so holy, Pearce. Life isn't holy.

James Edwin Gunn

#10. Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

Fritz Kreisler

#11. I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

L. Frank Baum

#12. Shitty nappy whizzing through the air, you don't see that in the brochures.

Karl Pilkington

#13. 'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

Pico Iyer

#14. When you come to God, you must come to Him in the posture - even the emotions - of a son, not that of a sinner.

Paul Silway

#15. . . to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all.

Philip K. Dick

#16. Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

Marge Piercy

#17. A hoarse shout from within and a small china ornament whizzing past my head informed me that my old friend was at home.

P.G. Wodehouse

#18. This book is dedicated to all the protons in the universe who continue to remain positive in spite of the negativity whizzing around them

RamG Vallath

#19. So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.

Geoffrey Cowan

#20. So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

Junot Diaz

#21. Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.

Dakota Fanning

#22. The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.

Deborah Moggach

#24. Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

Rick Riordan

#25. The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

Douglas Coupland

#26. The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

Esther Dyson

#27. We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought.

Bertolt Brecht

#28. I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun ...

Carole King

#29. If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

Alison Gopnik

#30. God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

George Peele