“I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.” AirInstant Author:Sheila Nevins
“My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.” BelieveFightingLeadershipAirHonestCitizensFellowsCeaseInstantThin Air Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.” WorldPastTechnologyAirModernTvsCommunicationTravelRadioDecadesContactInstantFunny TravelWovenSatellitesAir TravelModern Technology Book:On Dialogue Source: On Dialogue
“Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.” FeelsBodyEarthLastsTurnsEnjoyLordSawsGrowingAirGreenEmbraceInstantLapPillowSuspendedCrucifixionPigeonsSlow MotionVoluptuous Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.” IfsStillsForceAirDangerousNew YorkCatholicScaryBreadInstantPotatoesMarineMarine CorpsAir ForceMontana Author:Lenny Bruce
“We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.” IfsLongStudyAirMinutesBuildingExerciseDrinkStonesCuriosityMeatInstantSicknessDisorderDeliberatePolishDiligenceCannonsDemolish Book:The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions