Minutes Quotes - Page 20

• The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

  Arianna Huffington

  Average, Smartphones, Half

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.64, Harmony

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• To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary.

  Havilah Babcock

  Dog, Lying, Home

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• If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Politics, Contractor

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• I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes.

  Gregor Collins

  Ice, Cream, Jerry

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• We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Animal, Agency

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

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• This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Beer, Balls

  "Boogers Are My Beat". Book by Dave Barry, September, 2003.

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• The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.

  Dave Barry

  Night, Garden, Zucchini

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• We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I see only the present moment, I forget the past, and take good care not to anticipate the future. If we grow disheartened, if sometimes we despair, it is because we have been dwelling on the past or the future.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Running, Past

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.55, TAN Books

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• The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Use, Stories, Made

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• The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Spring, Flower, Garden

  Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.

  Jack Charlton

  Change, Men, Facts

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• It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

  Norma McCorvey

  Two, Cards, Patient

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• It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Intelligence Services, Iraq

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• As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

  Brian Williams

  Taken, Athlete, Israel

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• Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

  Richard Jenkins

  Meaningful, Waste, Life Is

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• Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

  Robert Barany

  Hands, Two, Arms

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• I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

  Sadie Frost

  Girl, Party, Taken

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

  Branford Marsalis

  Song, Couple, Stupid

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• They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

  Mike Judge

  Humor, Giving, Laughing

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• There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

  Peter Criss

  Sports, Squash, Long

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• The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Cute, Boys, Murder Victims

  Raymond Chandler (1983). “The Chandler Collection: Pearls are a nuisance ; Smart-aleck kill ; Killer in the rain”

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• We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us...Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.

  Dwyane Wade

  Kids, Past, Illinois

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• Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Fall, Clouds

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.12

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• We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

  Kanye West

  Rap, Rocks, Culture

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• When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

  Placido Domingo

  Orchestra, Session

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