Seconds Quotes - Page 31

• Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

  Paul Bettany

  Jobs, Five

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?’ Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leap’s hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. ‘Did you lie about when he was born?’ translated Mosca.

  Frances Hardinge

  Lying, Hair, Luck

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• I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

  Hans Zimmer

  Music, Kings, Hands

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• I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

  Graham Swift

  Summer, Sky, Names

  "Graham Swift: 'As a novelist, I'm in for the long haul'". www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2017.

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• I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Meaningful, Lying, Believe

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• There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

  Michael Nesmith

  Song, People, Groups

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.

  Paul Fussell

  Dirty, Writing, People

  Paul Fussell (1991). “Bad Or, the Dumbing of America”, Pocket Books

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• The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Finding Yourself, Suffering

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• I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.

  Anderson Cooper

  Phones, Two, Meditation

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• We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

  Carl Sagan

  Lasts, Calendars, December

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you.

  Malorie Blackman

  Stars, I Love You More, Feelings

  Malorie Blackman (2008). “Checkmate”, p.403, Random House

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• The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.

  Tod Wodicka

  Country, Night, Knowing

  Tod Wodicka (2008). “All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well”, p.87, Random House

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• As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Views, Flow, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought for three seconds and would produce and answer.

  Paul Halmos

  Memories, Science, Thinking

  "PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics".

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• I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.

  J. Cole

  Baby, Pain, Laughing

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• Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps for a few seconds it may have a rainbow, but it is only for a few seconds. In this infinite and eternal existence your egos go on bursting every moment. It is better not to have any attachment with soap bubbles.

  Rajneesh

  Air, Attachment, Rainbow

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• I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

  Russell Simmons

  Insomnia, Thinking, Anxiety

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• On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Math, Science, Air

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.

  Barbara Kruger

  Fashion, Fun, Mean

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• I have a rude thought every three seconds!

  Lee Ryan

  Rude, Three, Rudeness

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• I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!

  David Haye

  Motivation, Fighter, Speed

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• I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.

  Evel Knievel

  Prayer, Lord, I Can

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• With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Anger, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.83, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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