Minutes Quotes - Page 29

• I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

  Urs Fischer

  Years, Feels, Five

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  Adam Garcia

  Girlfriend, Gay, Thinking

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• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Talking, Office, Guy

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

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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• Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose.

  Lil' Kim

  Reality, Shoes, Survival

  Song: Lil' Drummer Boy, Album: The Notorious K.I.M., 2000

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• Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

  Elvis Costello

  Causes, Clinic, Shorthand

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• I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

  Al Yankovic

  Tongue, Bathroom, Clean

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• No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

  John Waters

  Long, Directors, Comedy

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• In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

  Don Henley

  Peace, Numbers, Special

  Song: Them and Us, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Technology, Perfect

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• Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

  Rick Springfield

  Men, Thinking, Waiting

  Song: Bruce, 2007

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• I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Typewriters, Trying

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• Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the 'dumb' animals made for the hills.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Animal, Simple, Political

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• The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Littles, Willing

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.133, Xist Publishing

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• Republicans say that sex is bad, because with them it always is. It is!...I'm sorry, but they're just doughy, asexual, wonky, white people, and if you had to have sex with them it would be over in an excruciating three minutes. It's just, - and from the headlines of the past year I gather the only sex they're really good at, is gay sex. Really.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Sorry, Gay

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

  Paul McCartney

  Sometimes, Adages

  Song: Silly Love Songs Reprise

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• When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

  Janis Joplin

  Advice, Lasts, Last Minute

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• Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Religious, Waiting, Religion

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• And yes, I'll admit, I am jealous. I'm jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can't.

  Colleen Houck

  Rip, Jealous, Heart

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.402, Hachette UK

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• In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

  David Copperfield

  Years, Two, Magic

  "Exclusive: Inside David Copperfield’s Holy Grail of Wizandry — Nirvana!". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegasweekly.com. May 26, 2011.

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• I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

  Edie Falco

  Children, Hands, Matter

  "‘Nurse Jackie’ Star Edie Falco On New Season, Sobriety". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

  Howard Finster

  Shoes, Long, Six

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• When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.

  Shenae Grimes

  Morning, Coffee, Care

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• I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.

  Kyle Gallner

  Running, Strong, Ocean

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

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• In TV, kid roles are like this: You're either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody's kid, or you get in these procedurals where you're crying or you're playing a witness or you're playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there's a formula to those TV shows.

  Kyle Gallner

  Stars, Couple, Crazy

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

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