Seconds Quotes - Page 19

• When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Light, Differences

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• This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Ideas, Doe

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• A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Two, Add

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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• There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration.

  Sadakichi Hartmann

  Photography, Art, Inspiration

  "The Valiant Knights of Daguerre: Selected Critical Essays on Photography and Profiles of Photographic Pioneers".

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• What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

  John Green

  Pain, Real, Heart

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.110, Penguin

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• In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space, and engulf the star-clouds in a fire storm of children, trees, and butterfly wings; or Life will fail, fizzle, and gutter out, leaving the universe shrouded forever in impenetrable blankness, devoid of hope.

  Marshall Savage

  Stars, Children, Philosophical

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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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• Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

  Patricia Heaton

  Emotional, Reflection, America

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• I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.

  Lorde

  Makeup, Noses, Changed

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• When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

  Brent Musburger

  Football, Running, Player

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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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• Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

  Koji Nakanishi

  Science, Magic, Way

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• It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

  Randi Rhodes

  Honesty, Lying, Two

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• In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

  D. James Kennedy

  Kissing, Two, Years

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• We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that will be racing us tonight, so we are going to be in the mindset that we are still just as fresh.

  Brittany MacLean

  Girl, Morning, Swimming

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• This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

  Aldo Leopold

  Life, Song, Nature

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons", p. 149, 1949.

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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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