Seconds Quotes - Page 23

• In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

  Emily Giffin

  Girl, Sleep, Giving

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.211, Macmillan

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• Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

  Melina Marchetta

  Life, Years, Challenges

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.227, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A woman’s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over, and asks, “Was it good for you?” You: a. Say, “God, yes! That was the best seventeen seconds of my life” b. Say, “Sure, as good as it gets for me with a man.” c. Put a Certs in your navel and say, “That’s for you, Mr. Bunnyman. You can have it on your way back up, after the job is finished

  Christopher Moore

  Jobs, Men, Good As It Gets

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• Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.

  Ilona Andrews

  Song, Wall, Rip

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.168, Penguin

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• Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Hate, Eye

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.

  Koushun Takami

  Running, Uncles, Men

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• He smiles and takes his index finger and presses it to my lips, leaves it there until my heart lands on Jupiter: three seconds, then removes it, and heads back into the living room. Whoa - well, that was either the dorkiest or sexiest moment of my life, and I'm voting for sexy on account of my standing here dumbstruck and giddy, wondering if he did kiss me after all.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sexy, Heart, Kissing

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.72, Penguin

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• He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Elephants, Laughing, Skins

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• Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

  Mario Batali

  Finishing, Lasts, Tiny

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  Sally Ride

  Firsts, Excited, Worried

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

  Slash

  Guitar, Two, Musician

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• I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Country, War, Years

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• I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didnt stop till it was over.

  Joel Siegel

  Cry

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• It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.

  Steven Wright

  Interesting, Feelings, Doe

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• God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.

  Heinrich Heine

  Jobs, Years, Forgive Me

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• We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans forward over the candle, the shadow of the flame dancing against his bottom lip. I lean forward to meet him as well. It's a kiss full of promise, of trust, and of all that is magic.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Heart, Eye, Kissing

  Laurie Faria Stolarz (2011). “White is for Magic”, p.284, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Love, Sad, Thinking Of You

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• The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.

  Christopher Pike

  Dark, Light, Thieves

  Christopher Pike (1994). “Black Blood”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.

  J. K. Rowling

  Couple, Brain, Should

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• These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

  Leon Panetta

  These Days, Headlines, International

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• I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

  Susan Orlean

  Ambition, Breathing, Games

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• There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Couple, Nice, Divorce

  "Karl Lagerfeld Talks Gay Marriage, Guns, Kim Kardashian & More". Interview with Christina Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.

  Jason Bateman

  Christian, Scripts, Hale

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

  Chris Brown

  Worst Moments, Care, Crowds

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