Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.


Joan Didion

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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
JOAN DIDION
Life changes fast, ... Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it e...
JOAN DIDION
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
JOHN GREEN
He brought us instant stature, instant integrity, instant quality that ... defined the early struggl...
ROONE ARLEDGE
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
ARTHUR JR.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR.
What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those ...
JOHN GREEN
And what is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is itone second? Ten? The pain of tho...
JOHN GREEN
A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.
ROSS CALIGIURI
It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed...
RUTH HARRIS
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment...
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills.
MARC PRICE
In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
DANE COOK
It's instant feedback. You can see things right away.
CHRIS SHELTON
It's about instant gratification,
JOSH BERNOFF
Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadw...
HERB PERONE
The inifinite is in the finite of every instant.
ZEN SAYING
The infinite is in the finite of every instant.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The infinite is in the finite of every instant
ZEN PROVERB
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
It's giving competitors an instant foot in the door.
BRIAN MODOFF
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGE
I knew I was in-love the moment selfish left my body; this occurred the instant you came into my lif...
SCOTTIE SOMERS
In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this inst...
ANAïS NIN
Laughter is instant sunshine!
BRIAN BENSON
Laughter is instant sunshine!
G. BRIAN BENSON
They were instant friends,
KATIE HARMAN
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
JAMES HUNEKER
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER
No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
RACHAEL TAYLOR
This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Nominees all reflected the culture of instant messaging.
LAURA CAMPBELL
We've been pushing instant messaging because it allows instant communication between people who are ...
JONATHAN ANDERSON
The wind changes direction within an instant and contains within it knowledge that can take away a l...
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Laughter is an instant vacation.
MILTON BERLE
Instant gratification takes too long.
CARRIE FISHER
Everyone wants that instant landscape.
ROSE BAGLIA
Thank God for instant replay.
JON GRUDEN
There are no instant solutions
JAMES CALLAGHAN
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lif...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ
Think about visual IM (instant messaging).
RON GARRIQUES
We are looking at integrating instant messaging in every application we can.
FRANCIS DESOUZA
We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.
EMERIL LAGASSE
She brings a lot of energy, which is one thing that you like from a kid coming off the bench. She's ...
BRIAN GIORGIS
I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward - very difficult; it...
CLAUDE MONET
The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.
ANDREW MOTION
Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.
MARIA ERVING
In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
EARL WEAVER
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
MERYL STREEP
Miracle centered messages encourages instant gratification.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to h...
ELIE WIESEL
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and i...
PAUL SWEENEY
Instant replay, the way I perceive it and the way Bruce perceives it, is to correct an obvious error...
JON GRUDEN
And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.
JACK LONDON
Lord has purified the sinners in an instant;one cannot express His Glorious Praises
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Instant gratification is the desire to choose the easy way out.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
AOL Instant Messenger is available to everyone.
ANN BRACKBILL
I'm an instant star, just add water.
DAVID BOWIE
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every pa...
TONY ROBBINS
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If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep...
GRAHAM NASH
It just amazes me that AOL can be so intransigent, ... AOL's Instant Messenger is the industry stand...
DAVID STROM
It just amazes me that AOL can be so intransigent. AOL Instant Messenger is the industry standard. I...
DAVID STROM
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
FRANZ KAFKA
Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, bu...
YUKIO MISHIMA
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERNARD WILLIAMS
I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
CAITLIN ROSE
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERT WILLIAMS
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERN WILLIAMS
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERT WILLIAMS
You'd have an instant decade-long waiting line.
JOHN GAY
Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
ELLEN HOPKINS
Why do we like these stories so? Why do we tell them over and over? Why have we made a folk hero of ...
JOAN DIDION
Instant gratification is the desire to beat the rules and cut the corners.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at ...
BRIGITTE BARDOT
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at y...
BRIGITTE BARDOT
I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.
BOBBY JOHNSON
That is a unique thing to have in the furniture industry. It's all about instant gratification.
DAVE DEMATTEI
There's nothing like the instant gratification of digging your hands in the dirt to create something...
DAGNY ROBERTSON
One's hopes are fulfilled in an instant, chanting the Glorious Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, Har.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
STEPHEN R. COVEY
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
MICK JAGGER
And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing in...
NEWT GINGRICH
I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ev...
HENRY ROLLINS
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
STEPHEN WRIGHT
Le moment présent a un avantage sur tous les autres : il nous appartient.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
I don't really complain about the refs too much. We're all human. They don't get to see instant repl...
ANDRE DYSON
You may feel like you've come down with an instant case of the flu.
BUCK TILTON
I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll...
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I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS
Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
JOAN WELSH
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can ...
JOAN RIVERS
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until y...
JOAN ERICKSON
Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to...
JOAN SMITH
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a...
JOAN RIVERS
A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
JOAN LUNDEN
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
JOAN CRAWFORD
Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
JOAN MARQUES
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
JOAN COLLINS
If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
JOAN WELSH
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of ...
JOAN BORYSENKO