Minutes Quotes
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I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.
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There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.
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I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.
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I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
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My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".
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Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.
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Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.
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There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.
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I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
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In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.
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You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.
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What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.
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Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle
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The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.
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I've played in games as short as 45 minutes, or as long as three hours.
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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.
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If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
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Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.
