Seconds Quotes - Page 5

• In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Hands, Games

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• Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

  Red Buttons

  Funny, Travel, Brother

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

  Elvis Costello

  Causes, Minutes, Clinic

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• The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.

  Cecily Strong

  Integrity, Technology, Years

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• I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

  America Ferrera

  Children, Smiley, Gregarious

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

  Brian Eno

  Mean, Play, Hours

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• Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

  Kate Adie

  Children, People, Nine

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• You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.

  Katie Finneran

  Mom, Teenager, Father

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• If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Eight, Able, Choke

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• One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

  Geoff Davis

  Years, Ideas, Two

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• I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Splits, Hours, Made

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• There are times when I can't stop speaking, when a million words leave my mouth in a matter of seconds… a million words that mean nothing… but when I want to find some words that mean everything, I just can't speak. Like: I miss you. Like: I love you. Like: My world is falling apart and I need you by my side.

  Rae Earl

  Fall, Love You, Mean

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• Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

  Annie Baker

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

  Annie Baker (2014). “The Flick”, p.140, Theatre Communications Group

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• Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. 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

  Memories, Two, Perfect

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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• Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

  Denis Hayes

  Important, Tools, Stones

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• Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

  J. Cole

  Baby, Pain, Believe

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• Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

  Matt Damon

  Insane, Needs, Sometimes

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• "I love you" takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Love, Lifetime, Hours

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• In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

  Bryan Cranston

  Order, Games, People

  "Bryan Cranston: 'I had to take my character from Mr Chips to Scarface" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

  John Barrowman

  Pilots, Airline, Wanted

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• It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

  Jaden Smith

  Moving, Years, Childhood

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds

  Wim Wenders

  Cutting, Waiting

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• All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

  Fred Rogers

  Thinking, People, Silence

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• My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

  John Travolta

  Sleep, Son, Suffering

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• Some people look at a picture for thirty seconds, some for years. It doesn't really matter because a picture is like life. You take out of life as much as you are able to take out of life, just as you take out of a picture as much as you can take out of a picture.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Years, People, Looks

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