Minutes Quotes - Page 35

I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

Jennifer Egan

Summer, Father, Taken

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I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

Al Yankovic

Tongue, Bathroom, Clean

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No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

John Waters

Long, Directors, Comedy

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Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.

Conan O'Brien

Funny, Technology, Perfect

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Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

Rick Springfield

Men, Thinking, Waiting

Song: Bruce, 2007

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Mark Twain

Names, Littles, Willing

Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.133, Xist Publishing

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Republicans say that sex is bad, because with them it always is. It is!...I'm sorry, but they're just doughy, asexual, wonky, white people, and if you had to have sex with them it would be over in an excruciating three minutes. It's just, - and from the headlines of the past year I gather the only sex they're really good at, is gay sex. Really.

Bill Maher

Sex, Sorry, Gay

"Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Janis Joplin

Advice, Lasts, Last Minute

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Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

Louis Eric Barrier

Religious, Waiting, Religion

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In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

David Copperfield

Years, Two, Magic

"Exclusive: Inside David Copperfield’s Holy Grail of Wizandry — Nirvana!". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegasweekly.com. May 26, 2011.

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I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

Edie Falco

Children, Hands, Matter

"‘Nurse Jackie’ Star Edie Falco On New Season, Sobriety". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

Shenae Grimes

Morning, Coffee, Care

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I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.

Kyle Gallner

Running, Strong, Ocean

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

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I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

Henry Hopper

Robots, Want, Explosions

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I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.

Thomas Horn

Character, Thinking, Body

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In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

Howard Hodgkin

Art, New York, School

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Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Marvin Hamlisch

Running, Song, Titles

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I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

David Ives

Song, Perfect, Three

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I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

Janis Ian

Home, Nashville, Three

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Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.

Patricia Ireland

Three, Too Much, Six

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The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.

Paul Ince

Sweat, Waiting, Lasts

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I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

Keith Jarrett

Musician, Chance, Should

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When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.

Kelly Jones

Eye, Beer, Cities

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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

Young Jeezy

Conversation, Whole Life, Whole

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Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

Jon Krakauer

Aliens, Environment, Antarctica

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