Minutes Quotes - Page 22

• I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Thinking, Cameras, Looks

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• I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

  Johnny Vegas

  Struggle, School, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Fall, Pieces, World

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• This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Distance, Long, Letters

  "De iride ('On the rainbow')". Treatise by Robert Grosseteste,

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• Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hurt, Miracle, Looks

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• I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Wrapping Paper, Notes

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• It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us
  for years.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Years, People

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• A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.

  Gerard Way

  Hate, Nice, Kids

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• I'm always at least ten minutes early.

  Richelle Mead

  Ten

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

  Phil Foglio

  Book, Trying, Excited

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• Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Powerful, World

  "Rightwinger Sebastián Piñera wins Chile presidency". www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2010.

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• I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fall, Men, Two

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• The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, People, Giving

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 13, 2011.

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• Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.

  Joe Strummer

  Thinking, Cities, Waiting

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• You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Math, Needs

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• Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sunshine, Practice, Sky

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of Life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.

  Emmet Fox

  Running, Law, Long

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• Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Blessed, Eight

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

  Coolio

  Sexy, Food, Eggs

  Coolio (2009). “Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

  Rod Serling

  Meaningful, Drama, Dancing

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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• Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see on the screen is violence as an almost casual commonplace of daily living. Violence becomes the fundamental principle of society, the natural law of humanity. Killing is as common as taking a walk, a gun more natural than an umbrella. Children learn to take pride in force and to feel ashamed of ordinary sympathy. They are encouraged to forget that people have feelings.

  Fredric Wertham

  Children, Moving, Pride

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• Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Tears, Cry, Mere

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.53, BookBaby

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• There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

  Perry Marshall

  Giving Up, Lying, Two

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• Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Brother, Games

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• If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Hangover, Two

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