“Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.” KnowsI CanMinutesReadyMomMachinesDinnerExtrasModerationChoose WiselyCardioCardiovascular Exercise Author:Danny Pino
“the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.” WorldMeanArtMinutesConditionsMonthsTasteReflectionMachinesFlavorArt WorldMovie BusinessUnrelentingFlavor Of The Month Author:Barbara Kruger
“If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.” PeopleIfsMinutesMachinesCommunicate Author:Nick Offerman
“The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.” MayHoursDifferencesWatchesMinutesJudgmentOrdinaryMachinesClockSufficientSecondsSmallest Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
“Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!” WaitingMinutesMachinesScriptsDesksUpstairsVending Machines Author:Jon Stewart
“Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.” ShouldHumansHeartWaitingGrowthHuman BeingsBrainEconomicMinutesDangerousMachinesCollapseGoing To WorkEconomic GrowthUnending Author:Jane Goodall
“The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.” FirstsSawsAirMinutesFirst TimeMachinesPantsGravity Author:Gary Busey
“We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjected to what I call "the age of interruption," where everything is interrupted every minute. We have constant input from TV, computers, fax machines, telephones, etc. It's very hard for a modern American to have two hours of uninterrupted time. I know how it is because I insist on several hours of uninterrupted time each day, and I know how ruthless I have to be to get it.” KnowsYearsHas BeensTwoHardAgeCultureHoursKnow HowFiveModernMinutesTelevisionTvsComputerMachinesConstantExtremesFive YearsEach DayEtcTelephonesRuthlessInterruptedInputInterruptionsOld YouFive Year OldsIndirectFaxFax Machines Author:Michael Ventura
“Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.” FeelsTwoHardActionBrainFireMinutesInvolvedMachinesConstantScreensBoredRapidsAppearingStimulationTexting Author:Bill O'Reilly
“Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.” BloodMinutesNormalMachinesPressureAskingInterviewsScreamSpectacularHookedRottingBlood Pressure Author:Lewis Black
“The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.” YearsBigsGrowsHoursFeetMinutesCenturyWindHugeFineColdMachinesTownsRoundsShoesSizeBonesFleshTinyWeatherDustClockShakesGrainBlanketMonstrousWrinklesPollenTurnipsCold Wind Author:Ray Bradbury
“I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.” ThinkingWantedWaitingMinutesMachinesPaidBreatheRingsAnswering Machines Book:Darkly Dreaming Dexter Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists” IfsEyeHoursMinutesTenMachinesRaysFlewBlinkDentistFrenzyUnisonImpressionists Author:Woody Allen
“We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.” KnowsRunningTogetherChanceMinutesBandTenMachinesMeetingsKillingSavedRunning AwayTypicalChance Meeting Author:Rick Riordan
“I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.” TurnsWaterWhiteAirMinutesColdLogicMachinesHotDrivenMetalsSteamElusivePouringCold WaterRotation Book:We Source: We
“About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?” SoundMinutesStrangeMachinesScaryCyclesWashingRoaringWashing Machines Book:The Life As We Knew It Collection Source: The Life As We Knew It Collection
“Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.” FirstsChildrenBookLightSchoolTogetherTurnsChoicesGamesSoundVoiceMorningMinutesArmsFitOne DayMoonComputerPagesSittingMachinesTwentiesLibraryDinnerQuittingTalesHeyCooksYour ChildrenGiftedNoonLaundryCrooksLibrary BooksBeside YouSmall VoiceComputer Games Author:Richard Peck
“An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.” YearsWellsPoorMillionsHellMinutesProduceAmountMachinesImpressive Author:Hugo Chavez
“It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.” HardMinutesSceneRainMachinesDry Author:Morris Chestnut
“You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingEndsEnoughRunningJobsSocialHoursPayAcceptingStreetsMinutesSecurityWallBenefitsSmartMachinesWorkersGreedDisappearCriminalsDumbEmployeeRetirementSocial SecurityObedientPensionVanishingPaperwork Author:George Carlin