We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.
Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.
One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press you would go completely and utterly potty.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
My very sassy older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'
My mom has always said that if I get a big head she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.
The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter but are quickly forgotten.
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
Love has features which pierce all hearts he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
There is a vitality a life force an energy a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time this expression is unique.
Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.