Seconds Quotes

890 quotes by 723 authors

Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, â€œYou just impugned the honor of my future marchioness.… — Sarah MacLean
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. — Jostein Gaarder
Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon… — Charles M. Schulz
She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed… — Julie Garwood
You still have," I looked at my watch, "twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation." One side of his… — Julie Anne Peters
Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweilerâ€™s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill. — Kelley Armstrong
I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance. — Emily Giffin
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… — Melina Marchetta
A womanâ€™s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over,… — Christopher Moore
And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I… — Josh Lanyon
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… — Ilona Andrews
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… — Ray Bradbury
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… — Koushun Takami
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during… — Terry Pratchett
Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering." "Are you saying that you -" "Doughnuts!"… — Rachel Caine
...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if… — Mark Z. Danielewski
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word â€œBookâ€™sâ€ with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process… — Lynne Truss
Um," Grover said. "Percy?" "Yeah?" "I thought you'd want to know." "Yeah?" "Cerberus? He's saying we've got ten seconds to pray to the god of… — Rick Riordan
Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he… — Douglas Adams

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