Top 120 Hurry Quotes

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We’ve just been chipping away at it. We’re not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that’s a three year promotion and touring cycle.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

I don’t worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn’t know art, just as it doesn’t know freedom, just as it doesn’t know goodness.

In Mumbai, even Bollywood stars use autos when they are in a hurry.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I am not in a hurry to be number one. I don’t want to be in the rat race in that sense.

Overall when you work in fashion, you’re always in a rush. You’re always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment’s important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It’s ridiculous.

I don’t know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I’m in a hurry.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I’m in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I’ll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

I’m staying in my wheelhouse, not making any romantic comedies in a hurry.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they’re going to want to talk football if ‘Talksport’ is on the radio.

I was always in so much of a hurry when I was playing a backup role – just doing everything.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness – you don’t look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.

I don’t want to say yes to a project in hurry and repent later.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I’d never take a job in a place where you couldn’t throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

It wasn’t until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life – and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were – that I kind of caught up in a hurry.

Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself – don’t hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I’d like to do a play that would run for days. I don’t think time is that important. Nature doesn’t hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets.

I’m really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there’s only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I’m not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

People close to me called me ‘Curry in a Hurry.’ I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

I am a man in a hurry.

There’s just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

I’ve given up looking for a boyfriend. That’s not to say I won’t be interested if the right guy comes along. But I’m not in a hurry.

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can’t be another ‘Feliz Navidad.’

I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I’m in a hurry.

You can’t hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.

Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you’re in a hurry. Really, it’s about enjoying that three-hour block of time and reflecting on the food, having great conversation with your dining companion.

I don’t want things to be done in a hurry. So I never keep pressure on music directors with deadlines. I ask them to take their own time.

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.

I’m very happy here at ‘SNL.’ I’ve never been in a hurry to leave because it’s such a special place. It’s never the same when you leave and come back.

You can get in and out of credit cards in a hurry. Not so easy to get in and out of mortgages.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they’re made, so I’m in no hurry.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

At night if I’m in a hurry, I’ll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It’s a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.

I can get an audience screaming in Las Vegas and say, ‘Barbara, that was a great show,’ and she’ll say, ‘Would you please hurry up? We have dinner reservations at 9:30.’

If I’m in the gym I’ll stay for a while, and I’m not usually in a hurry to leave.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.

If the world gets a lot hotter in a hurry and the primary aim is to cool it down, then the current plan of carbon mitigation will almost certainly not be effective. It’ll be too little, too late, and too optimistic – in large part because the atmospheric half-life of CO2 is roughly 100 years.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‘spiritual.’ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

People are in a hurry. They don’t want to look at a long list of ingredients. Cooking is terribly hard work.

Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don’t want to grow old and have regrets.

We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, ‘You’d better hurry up, they’re going like hot cakes, and they’re going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.’

I was working for a chef a long time ago who told me to not skip steps or be in a hurry. Success in a kitchen is more like a marathon and less like a sprint. Rising up the ranks too quickly isn’t necessarily a good thing. This advice was from a guy who was sorry he had done that and didn’t want me to do the same.

In the business world, those who are slow to act and adapt find themselves out of business in a hurry. In Washington, it can take 10 years to get even a good idea across the finish line.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‘hurry sickness.’ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.