Seconds Quotes
890 quotes by 723 authors
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You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.
— Shailene Woodley
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I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their…
— Vin Diesel
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Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and…
— Roger Ebert
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Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return…
— Caroline Blakiston
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Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.
— Serge Ibaka
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That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important
— Brendan Rodgers
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Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to…
— Tom Waits
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Taylor [Swift] always inspires me, not just with music -- she just inspires me as a person. She's really, really sweet and just reflects beauty…
— Selena
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
— Pat Metheny
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Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light…
— Douglas Adams
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The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
— George Orwell
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I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good…
— Douglas Adams
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The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
— Pete Conrad
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It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to…
— Philip Roth
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Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never…
— David Kenyon Webster
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When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air…
— Jackie Stewart
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And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it…
— Milorad Pavić
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A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the…
— James Keller
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If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,…
— E. O. Wilson
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Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is…
— Marq de Villiers
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