“On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.” CoursesMinutesCarGolfAverageRadioGymOnly TimeGolf Course Author:Dweezil Zappa
“Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was famous because of her love interest with a giant ape, and, wait a minute, that's Maria Shriver.” YearsHas BeensTodayCoursesWaitingInterestWonderfulMinutesKingsActressesGiantsApesKing Kong Author:David Letterman
“I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.” IfsWellsHas BeensCoursesDifficultMinutesTestsTwentiesEnjoyedEnduranceSurvivedMudOne MinuteHutsLeeds Author:Steven Morrissey
“I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.” MenFeelsHeartKindFeelingsHandsCertainCoursesFunWaitingClassWatchesSeeingWeekSadnessMinutesPromiseTiredPhonesBunchHolidayMarsFloatingNasaPromInnsCrankyNeptuneDejected Author:Celia Rivenbark
“On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it.” SometimesFeelingsHandsFacesCoursesHurtHeardMinutesOver ItSecondsGet OverHurt FeelingsSaudisArabian Author:Pat Condell
“I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.” IfsWantTryingSaidDoneKidsUsedCoursesCrazyMinutesNotionPhotographerDriven Author:Diane Arbus
“Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.” ThinkingFeelsWellsHappensCoursesAudienceMinutesPredictableBumpsHitchcock Author:Barbara Broccoli
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.” KnowsMenMeanHas BeensTwoLawCoursesPartyFiveAliveMinutesComplicatedLawyerSuitsFive MinutesPremisesDisagreementDronesScarecrow Author:Charles Dickens
“Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?” YearsDoeCoursesMinutesLifetimePunishmentHumaneImprisonmentCapital PunishmentExecutioners Author:Anton Chekhov
“It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.” TryingFirstsCoursesPresidentMinutesTenToughPressesIraqVietnamConferencesAvoidedPresident BushPress Conferences Author:David Letterman
“Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.” WorldCoursesMinutesBuildingBeatsBurningKitchenRegisterMeterCaloriesDjsGraphs Author:David Lee Roth
“In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.” NeedsYearsLongRealCoursesEasySimpleMorningMeditationMinutesTwentiesInstrumentsEveningHolidayBeardTranscendentalTranscendental MeditationSari Author:Peter Lindbergh
“I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.” I CanHumorFunnyCoursesWaitingHoursMinutesTenSpeed Author:Steven Wright
“A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.” WantImportantJobsLastsCoursesGamesChanceTeamMinutesPositionSevenCoachingNbaClosing Author:Doug Collins
“I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.” KnowsGivingShouldWritingTryingDifferentStoriesUseShowsFeelingsWantedMovingFormCoursesFunChancePerfectNiceMinutesFieldsSkillsGive MePresentingDoing YouShowing OffPlaying FieldsMusic Writing Author:Eric Idle
“I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.” ThinkingWantShouldYearsChildrenCoursesPoorMinutesTelevisionDrugRedSavingNosesManifestationContributingLife SavingBeing PrettyPoor Children Author:Simon Hoggart
“The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach.” WellsDifferentCoursesDifferencesRoomsMinutesApproachGenderDiscussionMulticulturalWell RoundedDifferent Approach Author:Cara Santa Maria
“If you read 1 John you'll see that love of God and neighbour are very closely tied together. Partly this is because all humans are made in God's image, so that when you love another human you are loving someone who is reflecting God himself. Of course there is a distinction but the minute you try to drive a wedge between the two things start to fall apart.” IfsTryingHumansMadeTwoTogetherFallCoursesMinutesGod LoveTwo ThingsDistinctionTiedFalling ApartReflectingNeighbourLoving SomeoneWedges Author:N. T. Wright
“I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.” ThinkingCoursesMinutesTypeSecondsTypewritersProcessors Author:Isaac Asimov
“I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.” UsedCoursesHeavenVoiceMinutes Author:Andrea Bocelli
“I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.” CoursesReadingMinutesPagesShotsSpeedComprehensionSpeed Reading Author:Brian Regan
“I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.” PeopleWayWritingKindDifferentStatesPlayPoliticalSongCoursesBitsDifficultPiecesMinutesAchieveFindingsMessagesMovedBlissSentimentsDifferent KindsPreachingKnockingBits And PiecesDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Dean Wareham
“And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.” KnowsKindCoursesSidesMinutesIndustryTasteMusic IsHotBoth SidesOne Minute Author:Mark Ronson
“I'm a low maintenance girl. I try to do very little when I don't have to. I find that if I have regular 'maintenance' treatments, I can be ready to go out in 5 minutes. I get my hair coloured, have regular massages, and love getting my lashes tinted and my brows shaped. Plus heaps of exercise, and as much sleep as possible. That way when I'm going out all I have to do is slick on some gloss, and a bit of blush and I am ready to go! Of course the LA sun helps too.” IfsWayTryingLittlesI CanHelpingGirlCoursesBitsSleepSunMinutesReadyHairExerciseLowsAnd LoveTreatmentPlusGoing OutBrowsMaintenanceMassageLashesSlickGloss Author:Cat Deeley
“I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.” FeelsCoursesWaitingMoralMinutesDutyAdultsMoral Duty Author:Francoise Mouly
“Every time we are faced with a choice, and we are faced with them every minute of every day, we make a decision to follow its course into the future. But what of the abandoned options? Are they like unopened doors? Do alternative futures lie beyond them? How far would we wander from the course we have steered were we to go back and, just once, open Door A instead of Door B?” LyingChoicesCoursesDecisionDoorsMinutesWanderAlternativesAbandoned Author:Mark Hodder
“When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.” WellsMadeSaidLastsCoursesImagineMinutesEffectsSixTwentiesStatementsSecretaryFrozenDisturbingAcademyNobelSwedishVery FamousFrozen In Time Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages... In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or Halle Berry's paramour - woo hoo - how great would that be? But wait a minute... er, no, probably kind of a nightmare.” KindCoursesWaitingEmotionFansMinutesTheoryPagesNightmareEmailBerriesTextingWeb Page Author:Christine Sneed
“I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write something on it. I tried for a month and then he came to L.A. I went to see him and said, "I can't do it. It's too perfect. It's like 'Stairway to Heaven.'" He said OK and then I go, "I can keep the cassette, right?" He said, "Of course and thank you for trying."” WritingTryingLongSaidI CanRememberCoursesHeavenPerfectMinutesMonthsRainPurpleCassettesStairwaysStairway To HeavenPurple Rain Author:Stevie Nicks
“In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 minutes," sort of Paris-Hilton-ization of society.” AmericaCoursesFoundWaterMinutesTypeExpectationsAddParis Author:Kehinde Wiley
“When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tasks.But that's irregular, depending on how quickly I'm reading.” WritingBookCoursesReadingMinutesTasksPostsRelatedReviewsTake MeBlogs Author:Debra Hamel
“Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and eleven minutes. This is two hours and twenty-five minutes, and I did try bringing it down. For instance, I considered cutting out the sequence with the family looking at pictures.” TryingLittlesTwoCoursesSoundHoursFiveCuttingMinutesConcernedTwentiesInstanceFive MinutesSequenceElevenTwenty FiveEleven MinutesAquarius Author:Sonia Braga