Nanosecond Quotes

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. (J.R. Ward)
A young person today has a nanosecond attention span, so whatever you do in a humor has to be short. Younger people do not wait for anything that takes time to develop. We're going totally to one-liners. Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer. View quote
Robert Orben
Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche. View quote
Jason McCoy
I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems. View quote
Warren Christopher
Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me. View quote
Grace Hopper
A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond. View quote
Steve Martin
As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
For all that somebody gets dumped every nanosecond in the world, you don't want to be lumped in with everybody else – you want it to be expressed as poignantly and vividly as you feel it yourself...A cliche is only a cliche if it's happening in someone else's life. View quote
Joanna Trollope
The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that a nanosecond had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all. What had once been the world's most public, most democratic, financial market had become, in spirit, something like a private viewing of a stolen work of art. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can't/shouldn't/won't do what we know we need to do. (Steven Pressfield)
In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me." View quote
Grace Hopper