Seconds Quotes

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.

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.

There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

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.

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.

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

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

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

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.