As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their souls, rapids will be run.
Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.
My life has always been rapid and crazy. It has just gotten a little faster.
Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.
Most kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant. You have to be, in order to survive all the animals and cliffs and crevasses and rapids - at some point, your brain has to kick [out of] that childish daydream world and start making I-want-to-live decisions.
Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well
In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.
I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.
We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.
The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.
In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
