5 Minutes Quotes

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

I just like being in a place where there are lots of people playing. You might get to spend a minute, or collaborate.

To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

I would give anything to escape myself, Flynn thought, just for a day, just for a minute even. Just to know what it was like to think differently, to feel differently, and to not be me.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

We found if you took the dog out for 45 minutes a day and worked with it that the solitary stress hormone, cortisol, went down. But then it went right back up again because they didn't keep doing it.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

One more minute of this, and she’d be a certifiable simpleton.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families.

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

Whenever I do anything, I need to take 15 or 20 minutes, maybe longer, to regroup.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

The only difference about us in here and you guys out there is we're braver for about 15 minutes longer. That's it.

I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're always a surprise to me.

The reality is that most of us are rarely, if ever, alone with our own minds and souls. Even when we do find a few minutes of quiet, we're driven to check our devices for emails, texts, etc.

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

I want to be like, "Look at Postal like Quentin Tarantino did it. Brainwash yourself and convince yourself that Tarantino did it. Forget my name and enjoy the 100 minutes and then write your review."

I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.

Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different.

See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.

O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!

I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t?