Quotes with minutes

Quotes 41 till 60 of 89.

  • C.E.M. Joad It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
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  • Bill Hader It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Warren Buffett It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Helen Rowland It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
    A Guide to Men (1922)
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Brendan Gleeson It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Horace Mann Lost - Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
    A Beautiful Thought… we clip from an exchange paper Universalist Union (16 March 1844)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Carlo Ratti Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Berenice Bejo Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • James C. Humes Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Lord George Byron My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ''Carpe Diem'' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds - for who can trust to tomorrow?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Hardy On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bill Frist Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Ann Patchett Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Horace Mann Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bill Bryson So without an original or helpful thought in my head, I just sat for some minutes and watched these poor disconnected people shuffle past. Then I did what most white Australians do. I read my newspaper and drank my coffee and didn't see them anymore.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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