Quotes with minute

Quotes 81 till 100 of 109.

  • Benjamin Clementine The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Will Rogers The minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Maureen Dowd The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
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  • Joan Didion The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Raymond Chandler The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ram Dass The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
    Ram Dass
    American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bill Kurtis The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • John Keats The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Michel Faber The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
    Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • David Letterman There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • P. T. Barnum There's a sucker born every minute.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Those minute critics who seem to think that when they detect the occasional errors of a great man, they in some degree reduce him to their own level.
    History of civilization II, 314
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • David Copperfield Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Buenaventura Durruti We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Carl Sagan 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.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 57 min 0 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Albert Einstein When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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