Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.
One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.
The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely.
People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.
All Playboy bunnies were constantly reminded that the TV show was Hugh Hefner's show - our contributions were irrelevant. We were the decorative icing, not the cake. According to our boyfriend, he could have splashed any three blondes on-screen and found instant success.
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.
Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.
One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.
I'm an American and I want instant gratification.
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U. S. ) presidential candidate.
I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.
When I go to American cities and speak to American audiences about Karachi, I am able to draw their own wonder and consternation about the cities they live in as an entry point to this other faraway, instant city.
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Democracy is not an instant coffee.
Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.
They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.