Nimble Quotations

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Kids are more nimble than wise...

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.