Minutes Quotes - Page 37

• I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.

  Pharrell Williams

  Needs, Break Out, I Can

  Interview with Mercedes La Rosa, uk.askmen.com.

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• On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Golf, Average, Car

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• Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.

  Ward Cunningham

  Engineering, Organization, Long

  "The WyCash Portfolio Management System". OOPSLA conference, c2.com. March 26, 1992.

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• Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

  Janet Maslin

  Documentaries, Capture, Burroughs

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• Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

  David Eddings

  Powerful, Dark, Night

  David Eddings (2010). “Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad”, p.136, Random House

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• I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

  Peyton Manning

  Thinking, Two, Perfect

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• I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

  Dave Eggers

  Self, Yesterday, Eight

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?

  Howard Jacobson

  Knowing, Together, Goes On

  Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.16, A&C Black

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• The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists.

  Howard Jacobson

  White, Perfect, Arms

  "Howard Jacobson: What I've Learned" by Ben Mitchell, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2014.

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• Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a “void”. Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they’ll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they’re nowhere to be found.

  Nicole McKay

  Hands, Always Trying, Needs

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• You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Running, Want Something, Three

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Prayer, Character, Night

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• I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit.

  John Key

  Sex, Fruit, Firsts

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• I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

  Jackie Mason

  Country, Winning, Ideas

  "Everything Bold Is New Again: An Interview with Jackie Mason". Interview with Bernard Chapin, spectator.org. April 18, 2007.

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• The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

  Schuyler Fisk

  Reality, Virginia, Balance

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

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• I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

  D. B. Sweeney

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Husband, Men

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.

  Peter York

  Real, People, World

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Nice, Looks, Five

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• I got to fight every second, every minute and every round.

  Rau'shee Warren

  Fighting, Every Second, Rounds

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• A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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• Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Eternity

  "Resignation" by Friedrich Schiller, Stanza 18, 1786.

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• Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom lays hold of Him. Sustained prayer is necessary. Such time may only be found by snatching it from personal pursuits, however legitimate they may be.

  Walter J Chantry

  Prayer, Self, Attention

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• Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute by precious minute, you are better able to savor each experience. Also, being closely attentive gives you the opportunity to change unwise or painful feelings and responses quickly. In fact, being truly present in a mindful way is an excellent stress reducer and, because of that, can be seen as consciousness conditioning, a strengthening workout for body, mind, heart, and spirit.

  Sue Thoele

  Workout, Stress, Heart

  Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.9, New Harbinger Publications

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