Famous quotes containing the word rapidly:
“Unfortunately, moral beauty in artlike physical beauty in a personis extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The locomotive, working rapidly with its elbows, hurried through a pine forest, thenwith reliefamong fields.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely- discernible fissure,... extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
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