Seconds Quotes - Page 14

• I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

  Klaus Kinski

  Years, Bed, Three

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

  Robert De Niro

  Reputation, Lifetime, Knows

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• It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Struggle, Writing

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• We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying

  Kris Allen

  Dying, Ems, Chance

  FaceBook post by Kris Allen from Feb 17, 2013

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• When you're depressed, there's no calendar. There are no dates, there's no day, there's no night, there's no seconds, there's no minutes, there's nothing. You're just existing in this cold, murky, ever-heavy atmosphere, like they put you inside a vial of mercury.

  Rod Steiger

  Night, Atmosphere, Calendars

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• I think what a big part of 30 Seconds to Mars is, it's not only music, it's not only art, it's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. And not everybody will understand it, and that's ok, it's just for the people that do.

  Jared Leto

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

  Eleanor Coppola

  Moving, Thinking, Light

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• You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.

  Shailene Woodley

  Real, Giving, Hug

  "Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood—and Fix It". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.vulture.com. June 1, 2014.

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• I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

  Vin Diesel

  Team, Bullshit, Driving Fast

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• Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, Cutting, Common Sense

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.22, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'

  Caroline Blakiston

  Stars, War, People

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• Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.

  Serge Ibaka

  Running, Sprinters

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• That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

  Brendan Rodgers

  Important, Balls, Six

  "Brendan Rodgers: Spain have been a great model for me over many years". Interview With Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the
  first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their
  blade, the length of their arms, etc.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Encounters, Needs, Use

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• Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

  Tom Waits

  Running, Age, Stories

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• Taylor [Swift] always inspires me, not just with music -- she just inspires me as a person. She's really, really sweet and just reflects beauty inside and out. If I'm going through anything Taylor can pull me out of it in five seconds.

  Selena Gomez

  Sweet, Inspire, Beauty On The Inside

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• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Long, People

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• Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

  Douglas Adams

  Sister, Time, Brother

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

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• The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Independent

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

  Douglas Adams

  Hands, Tasks, Computer

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

  Pete Conrad

  Interesting, Apollo, Firsts

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• It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to me, I was maybe 9, and he said to me, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off, put a blanket on you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right. ... Then the best part of it is that when you wake up, for the first 15 seconds, you have no idea where you are. You're just alive. That's all you know. And it's bliss, it's absolute bliss.

  Philip Roth

  Father, Sleep, Kids

  "At 80, Philip Roth Reflects On Life, Literature And The Beauty Of Naps". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 23, 2013.

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• Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

  David Kenyon Webster

  War, Men, Two

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• When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

  Jackie Stewart

  Fire, Air, Toxic

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• And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.

  Milorad Pavić

  Self, Sea, Train Of Thought

  "Dictionary of the Khazars". Book by Milorad Pavić, 1984.

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