Minutes Quotes - page 7

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep. (Jeff Lindsay)
Be fully present for five minutes every day. View quote
Geneen Roth
Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is. View quote
John Eldredge
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' View quote
Julian Fellowes
It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born. View quote
Justin Cronin
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side! View quote
Ken Hensley
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that. View quote
Kim Cattrall
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes. View quote
Alan Rickman
If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. View quote
Lauren Groff
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. (Garry Shandling)
I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session. View quote
Garry Shandling
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot! View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality. View quote
Baz Luhrmann
Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is. View quote
Billy Graham
[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him. 'Will? Are you asleep?'... 'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not now.' 'Good,' Halt replied, a trifle smugly. 'Serves you right. View quote
John Flanagan
I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours. View quote
Mike Myers
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes. View quote
Mark Hurd
But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes. View quote
Paul Reiser
If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes. (Monty Roberts)
Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog. View quote
Nate Ruess
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. View quote
Pete Townshend
When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it. View quote
Fay Wray
When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable). View quote
Elisabeth Elliot