Top 100 Two Seconds Quotes
#1. Private Zombie, you have two seconds, exactly two seconds, to seal that sewer pipe posing as a mouth,
Rick Yancey
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.
John Lydon
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?
Cat Johnson
#8. Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#9. What is your deal? You tell me five times a day that we're friends, and now you're jealous of some girl I flirted with for two seconds."
"I am not jealous!"
"Then what are you?
Jamie McGuire
#10. A maimed bunny rabbit could pin me in under two seconds. I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Orson Scott Card
#11. Five more seconds of weakness and then I get up. One, two. Three, four. Five.
Veronica Roth
#12. That's what nobody realizes. Two seconds are huge. It's the difference between something happening and something not happening. You could take one step too many and fall over the edge of a cliff. It's very dangerous.
Rachel Joyce
#13. Fine, I said, holding my gun out. I didn't need it anyway. With the way the guy was shaking, I could take his gun, break his neck, and dance on the body in two seconds flat.
Amy Tintera
#14. You got three seconds, he says, then they're comin down. He starts to count. One ... two ...
I turn and run.
I can still hear him laughin when I'm halfways back to camp.
Moira Young
#15. The time between two seconds was immeasurable, and though I knew our moment would come to an end, it would be a limitless one. We were two halves of one being who had at last found each other and come together in this union.
Nicole Williams
#16. You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.
Mark Webber
#17. I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.
Augusten Burroughs
#18. Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.
Gerad Adams
#19. Movies require a lot of patience. I like instant results. If I have done something that's not funny at all, the audience will let me know in two seconds. With the movie, I will have to wait nine months to know if I was that bad.
Vir Das
#20. The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.
Jonathan Gottschall
#21. It took a second for me to understand what he meant. Then another to get that he was serious. A third second to do something about the first two seconds, which was to sit down.
Rick Yancey
#22. Shit, there goes our chance at winning." Pey laughed. "A cocky quarterback that's in love with himself. We'll be lucky if you don't stop every two seconds to check yourself out.
Priya Kanaparti
#23. To make lashes curl better, take a hair dryer to your eyelash curler for one or two seconds before using it.
Isla Fisher
#24. Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.
Mary Stewart
#25. For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
George Orwell
#26. When we are allowed two seconds of freedom, be prepared for me to tear your clothes off."
"That sounds like a perfect plan.
Amanda Carlson
#27. You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
Tatiana Maslany
#28. My dear wife is two years, three months, and seven days older than I am. I told her if she pisses me off enough, I'm going to figure out the hours, minutes, and seconds.
Dan Adams
#29. It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.
Truman Capote
#30. Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east ...
Aldous Huxley
#31. I hate you," Kingsley said.
"That hurts, King. That stings."
"Do you know what hurts? Having an erection and being two seconds from coming and your domme stops sucking you off."
"That is a very sad story. Tell me more."
"I've created a monster.
Tiffany Reisz
#32. I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.
Jack White
#33. I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
Mackenzie Crook
#34. You have two seconds to tell me what the fuck you did to her, or I start carving you up into tiny pieces. And it won't be quick and it won't be painless. I'll make you bleed and suffer, but you won't die. You'll only wish you had, Skylar spat.
Maya Banks
#35. Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.
Mike Wallace
#36. For several seconds, they stand there, ... just four feet apart now, but separated by a thick granite counter, by fifty years and two fully lived lives. No one speaks. No one breathes.
Jess Walter
#37. Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.
Lierre Keith
#38. God, she was two seconds from jumping on his back like a monkey and strangling him.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#39. For example, knowing that it takes only about eleven and a half days for a million seconds to tick away, whereas almost thirty-two years are required for a billion seconds to pass, gives one a better grasp of the relative magnitudes of these two common numbers.
John Allen Paulos
#40. Days like these go on for years. It's the ones you want to last that slip away - one, two, three - in seconds.
Gayle Forman
#41. Oh, I was two seconds from jumping on his back and strangling him from behind ... with love, of course.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#42. My eyes were closed and his mouth tasted like marzipan flowers and clove cigarettes, and in ten seconds the whole of my life was wrapped up in that one kiss, that one wish, that one secret that would forever divide my life into two parts.
Sarah Ockler
#43. How is it that you can go from decent human being to complete jackass in zero-point-two seconds? Did they teach you that in The Eye?"
He stopped, and his eyes glided over my lips.
"Actually, I'm just trying to see if I can make you mad enough to kiss me again.
Rachel Hawkins
#44. I'm only two hours thrity-seven minutes and thirteen seconds younger than Jude, but she always makes me feel like I'm her little brother.
Jandy Nelson
#45. People don't really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots.
They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don't live up to their snap judgments.
Lilith Saintcrow
#47. You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.'
Katie Finneran
#48. I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning
#49. In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.
Mario Andretti
#50. I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump in with something hilarious every two seconds. I actually do listen to people.
Jim Carrey
#51. Space and time and boundaries between identities fade away, until all that exists for those brief, endless seconds, is you, one melded person, one self. You. One you, from two fragments of I.
Jasinda Wilder
#52. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
Malcolm Gladwell
#53. Deegan pushed once, twice, and rolled the body in. The current's fast fingers claimed Bobby and in less than two seconds he'd slipped beneath the rippling surface. About ten yards down, he bobbed up and then disappeared again. Oh, look, Bobby was bobbing. I chuckled.
Bonnie R. Paulson
#54. The longest prayer Peter ever prayed in the Senate-that of March 10, 1947, at the time of Mrs. Alben Barkley's death-took two minutes; the shortest, that which opened the Second Session of the Eightieth Congress-was exactly 36 words long and took a matter of seconds.
Peter Marshall
#56. She reached up and kissed him on the lips. It was a small kiss. It lasted only two or three seconds, just long enough for him to taste the future.
Francisco X Stork
#57. I figured I only had about two seconds to live. It's amazing how many thoughts you can have in two seconds.
Dinah Katt
#59. I stopped for a few seconds by the newspaper stand wondering whether to buy the two evening papers here, the two biggest publications. Reading them was like emptying a bag of trash over your head.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#60. Win's phone rang. He picked it up and said, "Articulate. Okay, put it through." Two seconds later he handed the phone to Myron. "For me?" Myron asked. Win gave him flat eyes. "No," he said. "I'm handing you the phone because it's too heavy for me." Everyone's a wiseass.
Harlan Coben
#61. In prison Shadow had learned there were two kinds of fights: don't fuck with me fights, where you made it as showy and impressive as you could, and private fights, real fights, which were fast and hard and nasty, and always over in seconds.
Neil Gaiman
#62. His whisper continued to stream a silent cacophony of warnings, kill and damage reports and pleas for assistance.
He allowed himself two seconds to watch it and came away with the sense they were losing. Not lost and not soon, but losing.
G.S. Jennsen
#63. I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty seconds or one minute, you can make some remarkable work shooting in one or two or three days.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#65. I do love acting the two seconds that you are in front of the camera - and this is going to sound like I'm complaining, and I don't want that because I'm blessed to even have a job - but there is a lot of down-time when you're just sitting in your trailer.
Rene Russo
#66. Yeah, I give you two a day before you end up killing one another," Nicholas remarks with a laugh."Seriously, it;s like watching mild porn, watching you two eye fuck each other every two seconds.
Jessica Sorensen
#67. Breakaway goals are fun. When you score a quick one in front of the net, it just happens, but during a breakaway, there's about one or two seconds where you're not sure.
Sidney Crosby
#68. Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
John Lydon
#69. Well, set the monster free ... he's begun his hymn, because he finds it all so easy ... but I'd give a quadrillion quadrillion for two seconds of joy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
Elliott Abrams
#71. I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.
Anderson Cooper
#72. When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.
Andie MacDowell
#73. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
Slash
#74. Whats on the outside matters for two seconds, whats on the inside matters a life time, find someone who has a heart of gold and anything else is a bonus.
Unknown
#75. Life is always like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. So, be everlastingly grateful for those rare two seconds and appreciate; appreciate what good you can find, no matter what the cost.
V.C. Andrews
#77. I missed you," he says. "A lot. And screw it if I'm not supposed to admit that, but I tried the whole alpha-male thing for two seconds and I just can't do it. So you don't get alpha-Ben today. I'm sorry.
Colleen Hoover
#78. For two long seconds, he couldn't help but watch her perfectly shaped hips and exquisite bare legs as she walked across the carpet.
Mark A. Hewitt
#79. Can we stop talking about penis fly traps for like two seconds? This is serious!
Kandi Steiner
#80. I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
Ayrton Senna
#81. I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.
Claire Danes
#82. I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
Dave Bautista
#83. Exactly how long can you stand on a street corner showing two drug dealers your scar-tissue-induced radical penis curvature? The answer is twelve seconds. After that it feels weird.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#84. I'd like to own you. You keep standing there much longer in that little rinky-dink towel, and you're going to feel how much you own me in about two seconds." I
Penelope Ward
#85. In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.
Erwin Rommel
#86. Two more seconds without touching her and I. Will. Die.
Colleen Hoover
#87. What the fuck, Andi? You looked like you were about two seconds away from letting Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome finger you in the fucking bar!
K. Webster
#88. To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.
Alistair Cooke
#89. The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one ... and we had ignition!
Eugene Cernan
#90. It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.
Randi Rhodes
#91. Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.
V.C. Andrews
#92. That is the first thing anybody has said to me for seventeen years, three months and two days, five hours, nineteen minutes and twenty seconds. I've been counting." He
Douglas Adams
#93. I have a lot of people to thank and I'm going to be one of those people that tries to mention a lot of names, because I know just two seconds ago my mother and father went completely berserk and I'd like to give some other mothers and fathers that same opportunity.
Meryl Streep
#94. you're damn right it'd be something caves of ice and ancestral war voices prophesying about damsels and sacred rivers screaming beware and your hair would float and ugh hang on two seconds there's a guy here
Mallory Ortberg
#95. I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.
Stephen Sondheim
#96. Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today." He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us.
Chelsea Fine
#97. A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
Ragnar Frisch
#98. I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.
McKayla Maroney
#99. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
Robert Doisneau
#100. You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.
Biz Stone
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