Short Notice Quotes

• Romance at short notice was her speciality.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Romance

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.547, Delphi Classics

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• What about a Princess Bride?" "Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?

  Ally Carter

  Princess, Men, Six

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• Rara vez podemos prepararnos en prados o paseos de grava; lo hacemos con poca antelación en lugares sin ventanas, pasillos de hospital, salas como este salón con su sofá de plástico agrietado y sus ceniceros de Cinzano, donde las cortinas de café cubren el hormigón en blanco. En salas como ésta, con tan poco tiempo, preparamos nuestros gestos, nos los aprendemos de memoria para poder hacerlos cuando estemos asustados ante el Destino.

  Thomas Harris

  Heart, Cafes, Gestures

  Thomas Harris (2009). "El silencio de los corderos", p.159, Macmillan

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• I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

  John C. McGinley

  Memories, Given, Rant

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• It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.

  George Washington

  País, Militar, Años

  "Sentiments on a Peace Establishment". Letter to Alexander Hamilton on May 02, 1783. "The Writings of George Washington", edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Volume 26, p. 289, 1938.

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• The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

  Walter Bagehot

  Simple, Bankers, Banking

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."

  Victoria Chang

  New York, Children, Vacation

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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