Seconds Quotes - page 3

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares! (Zac Efron)
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care. View quote
Chris Brown
These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline. View quote
Leon Panetta
I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth. View quote
Mike Dirnt
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. View quote
Robert Doisneau
Failure is just a few seconds away from success. View quote
John Flanagan
I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important! View quote
John Flanagan
The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds. View quote
John Flanagan
Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am. View quote
Hrithik Roshan
I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing. View quote
Amy Sedaris
No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds. (Red Skelton)
What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time. View quote
Renny Harlin
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again. View quote
Aidan Chambers
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much. View quote
Alan Tudyk
Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke. View quote
Alex Winter
You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter. View quote
Alison Jackson
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years. View quote
Allen Klein
Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously. View quote
Anne Dudley
The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie. View quote
Brian Roberts
It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views. View quote
Ben Schwartz
I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over. (Camilo Villegas)
He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62. View quote
David Coleman
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. View quote
Dick Wolf
I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion. View quote
Don Adams
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds. View quote
Danny Hillis