Eight Seconds Quotes

#1. When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?

Cat Johnson

#2. Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

Barbara Corcoran

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

Jeffrey Donovan

#4. Supposedly, guys think about sex every eight seconds. If that's true, how can they talk to their grandmothers?

Jody Gehrman

#5. In 2000, Microsoft Canada reported that the average human had an attention span of twelve seconds; by 2013 that number had fallen to eight seconds. (According to Microsoft, a goldfish, by comparison, has an average attention span of nine seconds.)

Adam Alter

#6. I must say, cowboy, I'm impressed. I was worried you could only handle eight seconds at a time.

Joya Ryan

#7. A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

Timothy Egan

#8. Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

Linus Torvalds

#9. When you really want to remember a specific information, spend at least eight seconds focusing on that information alone.

John Masterson

#10. Finding the right woman is a lot like ridin' a bull. You'll know in a little over eight seconds whether they're worth a second ride or not. And, as you know, the best ones usually buck you off a few times before givin' you the ride of your life."
-Coleman Cade

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#11. I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.

Petra Kidd

#13. One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Robert Rauschenberg

#14. Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

Frank Scully

#15. Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

Anne Lamott

#16. She fell down fifty-five floors. It took 10.6 seconds for her to hit the ground. It took my father forty-eight hours to come back home from his business trip in Sweden.

Chelsea Ballinger

#17. The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

#18. I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

Joan Chen

#19. Just do what makes sense.

Jill Telford

#20. Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

Plato

#21. As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.

John Dryden

#22. Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

Michael Moriarty

#23. Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Richard Dawkins

#24. You know my father's favorite game? Come here and pull my finger.

Bill Cosby

#25. Even though he was busy adjusting and gripping his rope, he glanced over and smiled.
She had her camera up waiting for a moment such as this. His whole face
seemed to glow when he smiled, not to mention added another aspect to his
handsomeness.

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

#26. Sometimes I feel like one of those sliding tile puzzles. I just get so dang close to what I want to see in the mirror and who I want to be ... but then I have to completely jumble up the pieces to try to get even closer.

Erica Goros

#27. I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

Grace Lee Boggs

#28. Character and Plot ... Character and Plot
Some writers have it and some do not
This I'll tell you Brother
You can't have one without the other

Johnny Flora

#29. I've only been gone a week, I reminded him.
Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

Meg Cabot

#30. At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.

Arjun Rampal

#31. There is more inside you than you dare think.

David R. Brower

#32. We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's and '80's music, that's the stuff that's pounding in the background while we were doing this stuff. It's a part of those movies.

Todd Farmer