Top 100 Quotes About Seconds
#1. You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.
Sean Swarner
#2. You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#3. I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates.
Nick Hornby
#4. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens
#5. Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds.
Stieg Larsson
#6. We feel that we fit into this fandom even if we're an outcast or misfits in this world." -Mary, 16, Philippines
Jazmin Williams
#7. Relationships are like a book,
It takes few seconds to burn,
But
It takes years to write,
So write it carefully
And
Never let it burn
Aditya Nighot
#8. Private Zombie, you have two seconds, exactly two seconds, to seal that sewer pipe posing as a mouth,
Rick Yancey
#9. Three seconds doesn't seem like a long time, but when you're gazing into someone's eyes, it's long enough to make a silent promise.
Renee Carlino
#10. You're a pain in my ass!" he yelled, glaring at me. I couldn't stop smiling, and after a few seconds, Travis' mouth turned up. He shook his head again, and then hooked his arm around my neck. "You're making me crazy. You know that, right?
Jamie McGuire
#11. In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.
Christopher Buckley
#12. Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.
Jason Bateman
#13. Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
John Lydon
#14. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.
Barbara Elsborg
#15. He looked like a Greek god. Jade's thoughts snapped from togas to white sheets to sex in the span of two seconds.
Alyssa Goodnight
#16. Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?
Oscar Pistorius
#17. Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done.
Len Dawson
#18. All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him.
Jessica Sorensen
#19. Then one day in school, I turned round to the others and said, 'Dude, what if we started a band like All Time Low?
5 Seconds Of Summer
#20. There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#21. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.
David Brier
#22. I definitely caught the acting bug, but that lasted for about two seconds when I found my way to L.A. and found that my talents were better suited behind the cameras.
Lee Daniels
#23. Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up ... there are too many people.
Doug Stanhope
#24. Run through those time measurements again," Aahz grumbled.
"In seconds, minutes, hours ... "
"Minutes! We've got a few minutes.
Robert Asprin
#25. These are the only moments that we have left. These precious seconds where the passion blots out everything else, and it is just us.
The rest is a war neither of us can ever win.
But, I already waved my white flag.
I have already surrendered.
Amanda Grace
#26. I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.
Mike Dirnt
#27. It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.
Amity Shlaes
#28. "I love you" takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove.
Wiz Khalifa
#29. When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.
Gwen Ifill
#30. He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.
Virginia Woolf
#31. Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.
Bruce Schneier
#32. I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies
Margaret Atwood
#33. Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.
John Lydon
#34. Lead the way Batman." "Batman?" She winked. "Your Mom's a wealth of information. "Aww fuck." Seriously? She'd been here for what, sixty seconds?
Kim Carmody
#35. Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.
J.K. Rowling
#36. I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.
Chris Eigeman
#37. Next time I will do things to you that will make you lose controll in seconds
-Dimitri.
Richelle Mead
#38. In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust
Mikhail Bulgakov
#39. 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
#40. it could take 30 years to build your reputation and yet it can be lost in 30 seconds.
Robin S. Sharma
#41. In moments such as these, it's the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life.
Rebecca A. Rogers
#42. I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.
Roland Martin
#43. Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
Allen Klein
#44. Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.
Malcolm Gladwell
#45. There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
Richard Morris
#46. Within seconds, my heart filled with more love than I had thought possible. Because that was the thing about hearts-when you thought they were completely full, you somehow found room to add a little more love.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#47. 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
#48. As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#49. I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a lifetime of tooth decay, that's what I've chosen.
Jon Stewart
#50. The others believed me wise because I won, but they didn't know the many instances in which I have been foolish because I lost, and they didn't know that a few seconds before winning I wasn't sure I wouldn't lose.
Umberto Eco
#51. He was acutely aware of her chest rising and falling as she tortured him with silence for several seconds before finally opening her baby blues and saying, "That Was Epic." Then she broke into a fit of laughter.
Robin Bielman
#52. She slowly turned her head and looked at him. At his attractive, open face that could turn dark and reserved within seconds. The curve of his lips. The green eyes that looked into her a little too far and that she couldn't defend herself against.
Kai Meyer
#53. 1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.
Jean Ziegler
#54. I'm a facist about spoilers. I'm the biggest pain in the ass to the marketing and promotions department. If I had my way, the commercials would be 30 seconds of black with a few words on them.
Brian Austin Green
#55. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it ...
Rudyard Kipling
#56. Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#57. If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.
Robert Irwin
#58. You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.
David Ogilvy
#59. 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 meet on the ground below?
David Kenyon Webster
#60. I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.
Jandy Nelson
#61. Sudden fright, or rage, or other strong emotion may disperse and displace a migraine almost within seconds. One
Oliver Sacks
#63. When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
Christopher Hitchens
#64. The past is the past. It may be the reason why we've become who we are today, but we can change our tomorrow. Another past is seconds away.
Nashoda Rose
#65. I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
#66. I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.
Evel Knievel
#67. You ever notice if you call someones cell phone they won't answer but if you text them seconds later they will. The Power of your Thumbs compels You!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#68. If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.
Alex Agase
#69. No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.
Diem Brown
#70. Closed his mouth. Then pressed a kiss on Oskar's lips. For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was ... himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#71. Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
Marvin Hamlisch
#72. In the photo, he and some old girlfriend smiled - greasy faces idiotic with hope that the picture would one day remind them that for three seconds they acted happy and thought it final.
Sam Pink
#73. The shelf life of my own opinion is somewhere between 3 seconds to 3 months, especially when it is about life and its meaning!
... But my recorded opinions definitely reflect my growing up for me, sometimes we do grow up in 3 seconds after we express something! ... yes we do!
Madura Aka Tirunelveli Tamizhachchi
#74. Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
Benjamin Banneker
#75. Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars.
Cool!' said the Gasman.
James Patterson
#76. When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.
Galen Rowell
#77. I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.
Graham Swift
#78. When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?
Cat Johnson
#79. I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
Will Self
#80. You ... you and Doc trying to protect me?"
"Strange world, isn't it?"
In was a few seconds before I could answer.
"The strangest," I finally agreed.
Stephenie Meyer
#81. The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.
John Flanagan
#82. Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.
Robert Shaw
#83. In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#84. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle.
For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.
Christopher Paolini
#86. There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.
Dick Morris
#87. Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.
Melina Marchetta
#88. His kisses were so mind-numbing that when Blake said, "Car door," it took Livia a few seconds to remember she spoke English.
"Dad. Oh. My dad's home.
Debra Anastasia
#89. Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
Anne Dudley
#90. I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds.
Jack Kerouac
#91. You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.
Glen Duncan
#92. You were difficult enough to catch, Faste said. Salander gave him a long look, satisfied herself that he was an idiot, and decided that she would not waste too many seconds concerning herself with his existence.
Stieg Larsson
#93. If I were to taste your mouth now, I couldn't answer for the consequences. So I can only adore this beautiful neck. I know that in a few seconds I will have to pull away, before the temptation becomes too much. It's too much already. You have no idea how much I want you.
Sylvain Reynard
#94. A typical CR2032 will have a quoted energy capacity of 230mAh at 3 volts. Just to put this into context, this is about the amount of energy required to power a human being for just over 20 seconds.
Robin Heydon
#95. Evening, lads." The redhead curled her fingers around the back of Sullivan's neck and pulled his head in for a quick kiss. "Hey, baby, I missed you." It took a few head-scratching seconds to realize that he was looking at Isabel Roma.
Elle Kennedy
#96. For a few seconds, I thought I might actually cry. That was so unlike me, I wasn't sure how to respond. Bronwyn Alessia St. Vincent Clare didn't get sad. She got mad. Or better, she got even.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#97. Close your eyes for a few seconds and imagine yourself playing Super Mario Brothers.
Anonymous
#98. I felt like some crazy old miser, gloating over his piles of gold coins, only instead of coins, it was seconds that I hoarded.
Stephenie Meyer
#99. I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.
Shreya Ghoshal
#100. A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. - Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997
Tom Standage
