Quotes for All
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the … Read more
Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions … Read more
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
Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He’s a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive. Emmitt Smith
Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth is dried and parched with heat, And it hath long’d to be Released from out the selfish cloud, To cool the thirsty tree. Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse–a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment’s insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,–but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character. Edwin Percy Whipple
We must remember how apt man is to extremes–rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Marriage…one of the most civilized institutions in the world…But…swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married … Read more
The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing. Ed Begley, Jr.
Without … the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread – without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. E. F. Schumacher