Seconds Quotes

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didnt stop till it was over.

Failure is just a few seconds away from success.

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day

[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.

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!

I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Kids; 10 seconds of joy, 30 years of misery

My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.

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.

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.

You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

Understand the now. Don't even worry about five seconds later, worry about now.

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!

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.

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.

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.

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.

Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb)

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.