Minutes Quotes

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. View quote
Woody Allen
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes. View quote
Jules Renard
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. View quote
George Best
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. View quote
Robert Frost
In the future everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame. View quote
Andy Warhol
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. View quote
Horace Mann
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. (Horace Mann)
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. View quote
Warren Buffett
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. View quote
Edgard Varèse
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. View quote
Christopher Morley
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. View quote
George S. Patton
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. View quote
Helen Rowland
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes. View quote
Billy Wilder
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. View quote
Groucho Marx
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. View quote
James Thurber
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes. (Alanis Morissette)
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin. View quote
Vangelis
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. View quote
Jason Statham
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. View quote
John Cage
Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively. View quote
Madeleine Stowe