Frantic Pace Quotes

The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the word-easy, easy-only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys-that's all. Start her!

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

I feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel like, in order to move somebody, you have to do something shocking or violent or something insane and fast.

Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.

Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.

Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.

For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.

If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.