5 Minutes Quotes

If families give Our Lady fifteen minutes a day by reciting the Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God's grace, peaceful places.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.

Time needs another minute.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

Rollover minutes don’t work with curfews.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom.

I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife, who said to Alex on their wedding night, Your three minutes are up. Never got a dinner!

"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.