Minute Quotes

#1. How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?

Virginia Woolf

#2. You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

Abby Wambach

#3. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

Dan Aykroyd

#4. The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. I think every minute you're in a situation like this, your clock is ticking.

Joe Teti

#6. I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it.

Joe Hill

#8. You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

Sandra Cisneros

#9. I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

Malorie Blackman

#10. You might catch me dozing off, but only for a minute. For a second.

Young Chop

#11. The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

Harriet Doerr

#12. There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For

Betsy Lerner

#13. The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

Kobo Abe

#14. And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.

Mark Ronson

#15. Just let me be strong for you for a minute, okay?" He said softly. "You've held on for a long time, sweetheart. Nobody can say you haven't been strong. But it's been a hell of a night, so why don't you let me hold you and help you right now, okay?

Joanna Wylde

#16. Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.

Hafez

#17. If you want to be of use to God, get rightly related to Jesus Christ and He will make you of use unconsciously every minute you live.

Oswald Chambers

#18. But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.

Georgette Heyer

#19. We're still not going to talk about it, but just think for a minute, will you? Dragon?" She curled her hands into claws. "Rowr? Me leaving town?

Thea Harrison

#20. If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

Henry Ford

#21. Don't believe for one damn minute that you're remotely fine with being a pretty trophy for someone who sat on his ass for nearly fifty years, then sat on his ass while you were shredded apart - " "Stop

Sarah J. Maas

#22. a minute,' said Roger. 'You must ask

Helen Simonson

#23. Only because I'm not a morning person. (Joe)
And you're not a night person either. Face it, babe. You've only got two good minutes a day. The minute before noon and the minute right after. (Tee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'

Frank Laubach

#25. She's not the one I want." His words came out terse. "It's you. It's been you since ... since the minute I first saw you.

C.C. Hunter

#26. The Harvester was the rustling of autumn leaves, there one minute, gone the next.

Jolene Haley

#27. Sometimes you have to let things go. Sometimes you have to stop caring for a minute.

Trina Etmanskie

#28. We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

Julia Cameron

#29. You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#30. A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Pam Brown

#31. I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

Steve Irwin

#32. Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

Joshua Foer

#33. An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Hugo Chavez

#34. But you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist,

Meg Cabot

#35. Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside.

Toni Morrison

#36. All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.

John Joly

#37. There's a sucker born every minute.

P.T. Barnum

#38. Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

Noam Chomsky

#39. I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Loni Anderson

#40. The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

Daniel H. Wilson

#41. Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

Harry S. Truman

#42. What the hell is your problem?" Sputtered Jason, pushing his wet hair back from his face.
"Oh I don't know. One minute you're kissing my girlfriend and the next you're throwing her down a hill.

Kathleen Peacock

#43. The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead

David Bowie

#44. One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

William Congreve

#45. God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

Oswald Chambers

#46. Cane tended to have mood swings like a bitch. One minute he could be cool as hell and then the next he was mean as fire.

Nika Michelle

#47. Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

Sarada Devi

#48. The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls - he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

Michael Scott

#49. The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots.

Steven Pressfield

#50. We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

O. Henry

#51. The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.

Nils Bohlin

#52. People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

Tom Arnold

#53. C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

Robert Lynn Asprin

#54. I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush.

Antonio Machado

#55. I Ignore the unwelcome stab of disappointment. Why do I want to spend every single minute with this controlling sex god? Oh yes, I've fallen in love with him, and he can fly.

E.L. James

#56. If I didn't already love you, Jessica Chase, I'd fall in love with you all over again, every minute of every day.

Olivia Cunning

#57. If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions.

Bill Plympton

#58. Is it stupid to waste time on stuff like that in a world like this? When everything might fall apart any minute?

Isaac Marion

#59. I believe, sir,' said Richard Swiveller, taking his pen out of his mouth, 'that you desire to look at these apartments. They are very charming apartments, sir. They command an uninterrupted view of - of over the way, and they are within one minute's walk of - of the corner of the street.

Charles Dickens

#60. There's nothing that compares to watching that final 17 to 20 minute sequence in one sitting. It fills you with a giddy energy watching that. Then, being gifted with the silence that follows ... I've never had a theatrical experience like that before, I'm sure.

Will Oldham

#61. Death is part of life my love.We are all dying every minute we are live.

K.J. Kilton

#62. If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Muhammad Ali

#63. Life begins now
right now
not tomorrow or the next day or the next. Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins anew. That means everything can change in an instant. It also means you can have a new beginning whenever you want.

Neale Donald Walsch

#64. They miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that their daughter and granddaughter are gone.

Joe Flaherty

#65. Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.

Tony Kushner

#66. Butch: Now after we ... wait a minute ...
Sundance: What?
Butch: You didn't see Lefors out there?
Sundance: Lefors ? No.
Butch: Good. For a minute there I thought we were in trouble.

William Goldman

#67. If you're not used to compliments, they can really mess you up for a minute.

Louise Rozett

#68. Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

James Hillman

#69. I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

Will Durant

#70. The woods hung dark on the hills; above, the sky violet, specked with minute feathery clouds, white as snowflakes.

Arthur Machen

#71. In the weak light of the lonely lamp, he held onto her, for a solid minute, his head buried in her neck as if he needed her. Just like the night in the hotel room when he pressed his forehead to hers and damn near liquefied her heart.

Kendall Grey

#72. Because my life's been so much richer for having had her in it, you see. And I know I'll see her again. I believe I will. I wouldn't trade one minute of what we had together even if it meant I'd never have to feel this way.

Megan Hart

#73. When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

Eric Idle

#74. It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

Kirstie Alley

#75. Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

Jay Leno

#76. On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

Dean Koontz

#77. At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.

Chuck Palahniuk

#78. Changing the plan at the last moment. "Oh, come on. The chicken can wait. Can't it? Sure it can." He was talking a mile a minute. "You can put the other thing back

Donna Tartt

#79. Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.

Maxwell Maltz

#80. Think about for a minute what your body goes through out there. On a Friday night, you have a steak and then Saturday morning, you get up and have some eggs and some pancakes. Then Sunday, you're on 'Survivor' and suddenly you have nothing.

Jeff Probst

#81. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn't matter when you're alone together because it's just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#82. This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.

Johnny Vegas

#83. Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.
Both theses are equally well-founded, hence equally true, as each of us can discover for himself in the space of an hour, sometimes of a minute. ...

Emil Cioran

#84. The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

Mark Strong

#85. One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sal Mineo

#86. It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

Evan Osnos

#87. He steps over to me and takes the empty bowl from my hand, setting it on the desk. Grasping my chin, he pulls my face up so I'll look at him. His thumb brushes across my bottom lip, and he's quiet for a minute before whispering, "Only a fool would be bothered by being with you.

J.M. Darhower

#88. When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

Amanda Beard

#89. But there really was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long or even one minute or one hour. Those were artificial divisions, imposed by humankind. Time was infinite. And it was time to love.

Mary Balogh

#90. The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

William Matthews

#91. I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed.

James Corden

#92. If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.

Ricky Van Veen

#93. It was crazy. One minute my arms were around him in a very platonic friendly hug, the next, I was on fire, and no matter how he much touched me, it was not enough.

Somi Ekhasomhi

#94. There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

F. Murray Abraham

#95. The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch or 'paint the black' because that's when you fall behind. You have to stick with what works for you and go after hitters like there's nobody on base.

Mark Mulder

#96. When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.

Ram Dass

#97. Other than this, the room was entirely still, as if such a grand clock had stolen even the time it took for a dustmote to float across a sunbeam, needing every minute, every second it could find.

Emma Trevayne

#98. We hiked the Matterhorn and I stopped every minute to take pictures until he fumed: "Do you think all this beauty and grandeur can fit in a little square of film? Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing." My

Paulo Coelho

#99. Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution.

Brian Tracy

#100. At any minute, I am four minutes from a poncho.

Demetri Martin