“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”

“I didn't mean to make it sound like we don't want children. We don't, but I didn't mean to make it sound like that.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”

Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American jazz musician, composer and band leader

“The deadline was two months earlier, but like myself Mike considered deadlines in financial rather than chronological terms.”

T. A. Waters (1938–1998) American magician

“From 'We Being Ghosts'
Well, good to see you. Sorry I have to fly.
I'm struggling with a deadline, God knows why,
And ghosts keep interrupting. Think of me
The way I do of you. Quite often. Constantly.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

“Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

“I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.”

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer

“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.”

Michael Foot (1913–2010) British politician