5 Minutes Quotes

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

I'm always at least ten minutes early.

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

People are so complex that you can't possibly know anybody in 90 minutes.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

I'm in high heels, I'm wearing a fabulous dress, people want me to just smile and talk about my movie because I only have three minutes, and that's my job.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.

I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets.

I like sleeping at the minute, I don't really get the chance to do that.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

I roll onto my side and stare out the venetian blinds at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes I'm lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky--same as it always was.

I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

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)

I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this damned thing off my desk before I shoot it? Now make the call, Mr. Hunt-and-Peck. (Tee)

You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)

I hate you! (Artemis) Oh, please don’t get my hopes up. You almost gave me a hard-on with that thought. At least tell me this time your hatred will last more than five minutes. (Acheron)

Are you okay? (Simone) No, I’m in ecstasy. I blew straight past okay the minute you touched me. (Xypher)

Don’t, Cassandra. (Wulf) Oh, please. I just want to choke her for a few minutes. (Cassandra)

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute. 'You say, "Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, ‘She wishes she was that cool!

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.