Top 120 Hurry Quotes

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can’t hurry art.
Michael Heizer
I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I’m sometimes mad at myself that I didn’t stop and study for a couple of years.
Max von Sydow
As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that’s slow. But with TV, it’s hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It’s a different pace.
Lee Daniels
I am not in any hurry to grow up.
Sylvia Earle
It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.
Glen Campbell
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don’t be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.
Daymond John
Naan’ performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.
Vijay Antony
Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Clara Schumann
I am a man in a hurry. We have to work both from office and roadside. I am impatient.
Arvind Kejriwal
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don’t have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don’t prevent war by having a war.
David Lange
I’m terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, ‘Hurry up and enjoy yourself.’ No one wants to know that.
Mads Mikkelsen
Whenever I got home, I’d hurry to complete my homework and then play football in front of our house.
Kalidou Koulibaly
I don’t like to hurry. I’m not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.
Jeffrey Tate
Cool under pressure can be misinterpreted. I’m fired up, but in my mind, I’m calm. Here comes the next play, hurry up, let’s go.
Philip Rivers
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales
Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.
Gil Scott-Heron
I’ve had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry and grow up so I could make enough money to buy my father a big car and my mother a beautiful home with an electric washing machine and all those things she used to see in the newspapers.
Trini Lopez
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
Billy Gibbons
You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.
Stephen Curry
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I’m in no hurry to get anywhere. I don’t have any plans. I don’t have a map. If you did in this business, you’d destroy yourself.
Colin Farrell
I think, basically, what I’m good for is reading – a lot. I think I’ll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven’t read, sometimes I feel as if they’re all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, ‘Hurry up.’
Helen Oyeyemi
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
Kenneth Clark
The degree that these scenes went to… there was a couple of days I was upset… I’d have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
Natasha Richardson
If I’m in a hurry, I will have the South Beach Ricotta Muffins. Some mornings, I’ll just have turkey bacon and scrambled eggs.
Jessie James Decker
My heart’s in stage. Making ‘Quadrophenia’ was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But ‘hurry up and wait’ is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.
Phil Daniels
Patience doesn’t mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
Sharon Salzberg
Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
Malcolm Campbell
When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.
Mario Lemieux
The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you’re going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you’re going, but you get there with a community you’ve built along the way.
Bruce Feiler
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
John Ortberg
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.
Earl Monroe
I am not in a hurry, I don’t want to become a star overnight.
Koena Mitra
I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, ‘Law school will always be there.’ I was in no hurry to get right into that.
Alec Baldwin
Every other show that I’m on, they’re always rushed, and you feel this pressure to hurry up and get out of the scene, but I don’t feel that way on ‘Transparent.’ They like to linger in these scenes.
Rob Huebel
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I’m not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne
Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here’s a radical idea: Don’t.
Bruce Feiler
I’m not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
Maya Lin
Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard a couple leaving, and the lady said, oh, I have to hurry home. I’m going to church tomorrow. And her friends said, church? You’ve already been to church.
Alice Coltrane
For years I was the only publicly out gay person who was not a full-time gay activist: my position as a quasi-foreigner gave me a privileged perch, and my ability to earn money by writing for western publications made me almost impervious to discrimination. Other Russians were not in a hurry to come out.
Masha Gessen
Some basic things I have picked up from Dad is how to interpret my character correctly, use the camera to my advantage and how not to hurry up with work.
Shriya Pilgaonkar
For me, acting is a long-term thing. I’m not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I’m 60.
Gabriella Wilde
I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don’t regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
Carlene Carter
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.
Chris Grayling
Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the dreamy, colored, slow-moving Malay life which passes below the hill. There is never any hurry or noise.
Isabella Bird
I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
Lillie Langtry
I am not in a hurry… I take slow steps but never go backwards.
Mahima Chaudhry
Every actor must go through the process of learning and not just be in a hurry to become famous. They should learn to live in small amounts and not to try and copy others.
Pankaj Kapur
I was literally in the car every day on my way home from school trying to hurry up and get the homework done so I could just go home and watch the cartoons and not be bothered.
Ray Fisher
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
Johann Georg Hamann
The basic problem with young people entering show business is that they are in a hurry.
Henry Mancini
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.
John Elway
I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can’t even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.
Len Goodman
They were heading out to the middle of the bay – the Gulf – that’s another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn’t hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we’d take ’em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
James Stockdale
It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‘Hi’ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.
Aurora
You read things in the papers but I never really expected Barcelona to choose me. It all happened in a hurry.
Quique Setien