Seconds Quotes

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. View quote
Sam Levenson
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein. View quote
Bruce Willis
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. View quote
Lenny Bruce
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. View quote
Paulo Coelho
They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other. View quote
Michael Chabon
I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage. View quote
Sachin Tendulkar
Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay. (Harlan Coben)
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be. View quote
Dave Bautista
So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out. View quote
Cat Stevens
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. View quote
Viktor Frankl
I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border-and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. View quote
Ted Turner
If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year. View quote
Steve Jobs
It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand. View quote
George Orwell
It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it. View quote
Elmore Leonard
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot. (Linus Torvalds)
I went sky divin', I went rocky mountain climbin', I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu.And I loved deeper, And I spoke sweeter, And I gave forgiveness I've been denying, And he said someday I hope you get the chance,To live like you were dyin'. View quote
Tim McGraw
My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking. View quote
Ray Bradbury