“Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it.” WishChanceForeverStudyMinutesDegreesTraveler Book:Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses Source: Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses
“I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.” WantedSchoolCareersMinutesCollegeDegreesTheaterMusicalPursuePursuedMusical Theater Author:Nancy Allen
“If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.” IfsMomentsBigsMightLastsWaterMinutesDegreesTwentiesWaveEightFortyDrowningForty Eight Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.” YearsLooksEndsMomentsWaitingDifferencesFiveMinutesDegreesStealingLook UpPresent MomentCigaretteFive MinutesDecencySmartphones Author:Charlie Brooker