'Now we'll start all over,' it seems to say every morning, 'and come on, let's hurry like anything.' London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
On a recent rainy weekday afternoon, heart sinking, I descended the ramp into Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall where there were only a handful of people, hurrying like subway riders in Times Square.
I rush back anxiously to the riverbank, hurrying like someone who has left something irreplaceable behind and goes to look for it fearing somebody else might have taken it.
Danziger, smiling apologetically, hurried away like the White Rabbit, suddenly late for an appointment.
All the way to the bus station he had hurried because he liked being early for things.
Mira hurried between them like a congressional aide.
"It shouldn't be rushed and hurried and abbreviated like it is now.
They'd been having sex ever since they started going together at the end of their junior year, but it was always sex in the car or sex on a blanket or the lawn, hurried sex, nothing like she wanted it to be.
Impersonal and hurried technical communications like text and email have their place in life, but not as your only means of communicating.
"If you shoot a sex scene the night before your birthday," says Fey, "everyone's like, 'Hurry up, hurry up, we've got to get it before midnight' because they think your vagina's going to turn into a hermit crab".
