Minutes Quotes - Page 33

• After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rainbow, Fifteen, Looks

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• Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

  Stephen Leacock

  Clever, Tired, Reality

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “My Discovery of England”, p.101, The Floating Press

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• Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

  Ezra Koenig

  Meditation, Tetris

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

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• Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Interesting, Ifs

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• The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

  John Lyly

  Lightning, Moments, Ends

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.55, Manchester University Press

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• Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Play, Trying

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Fun, Energy, Batteries

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

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• Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.

  Alison Bechdel

  Girl, Home, School

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• How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

  Richard Avedon

  Children, Hate, Men

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• For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Yesterday, Historical, Development

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• Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

  Rick Mercer

  Government, Giving, Majority

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

  Allison Pearson

  Believe, Men, Want

  "Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Thinking, Shadow, News

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• The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Care, Bureaucracy

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• The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.281, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Hard Times, Winning

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• Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Cry, Hours

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• If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Blessed, Giving

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2015). “108 Quotes On Bliss”, p.89, M A Center

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• To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

  William Cowper

  Science, Design, Signatures

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.148

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• I got a chiropractor to come along to the Patriot shoot, because they can actually stick you back together within 15 minutes. He spent a week and worked on the entire crew. All the stunt guys were like, 'Oh, fix my disc.' The guy's amazing.

  Mel Gibson

  Guy, Together, Sticks

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• Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time to find the data. On large transfers, though, tape should outpace most disk systems. From an ingest perspective, LTO-6 and other enterprise tape formats may be unrivaled when compared on a single unit basis.

  George Arthur Crump

  Data, Perspective, Add

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• I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

  Stephen Colbert

  Host, Producers, Accused

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• I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

  George Harrison

  Criminals, Crime, Heard

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