One Minute Quotes - Page 8

• If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

  Linda Barnes

  Warning, Want, Might

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• "Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Captains

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.386, Jester House Publishing

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• When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Teacher, Selfish

  "'I've Lived A Charmed Life'". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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• I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

  Taylor Swift

  Three, Next, Minutes

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• Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

  Jay Leno

  Sports, Hurt, Cities

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• I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

  Ray Romano

  Alzheimer's, Names, Giving

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• Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?

  Don Rickles

  Kings, Thinking, Cells

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Years, Sea, Phones

  "Ketchup off menu for Di Canio's Sunderland". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2013.

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• That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable.

  Andrew W.K.

  Lonely, Thinking, Should

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

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• And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.

  Mark Ronson

  Hot, Taste, Sides

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.

  Sally Field

  Thinking, Important, Minutes

  "We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

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• One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

  Ben E. King

  Distance, Journey, Next

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

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• Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Business, Favour, Fickle

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• The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Successful, Focus, Able

  "24 Quotes on Success From Oprah Winfrey" by Grace Bluerock, www.entrepreneur.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Yoga, Breathing, Differences

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