Minutes Quotes - Page 24

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

This is going to be a long three minutes here.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it’s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.

Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.

Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.