“I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.” NeedsSelfDoneHoursMinutesSevenEightYesterdayLoathingWork DoneSelf Loathing Author:Dave Eggers
“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.” WritingLongBookEndsProcessFivePiecesWrittenMinutesStageChangedEightRoutineWriting A BookDepartureFormatOne LinerHboDrastic Author:George Carlin
“Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.” MovingWorkMinutesMonthsEightMiles Author:Bob Seger
“At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.” HeartDoneBodyFourMinutesTrainingRateEightFatsSecondsIntensityRoofHeart Rate Author:Arjun Rampal
“If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?” IfsThinkingMenDoeEarthSexMinutesEightEvery ManNine Author:Peter Greenaway
“I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.” RunningRealizingRaceWatchesKnowingFiveWeekMinutesCarEightSpeedNosesBoredomMetalsTailsThrillBankingFive MinutesJohnsonScenariosIdenticalBlasphemyLumpsTerminalFreewaysHigh SpeedTurned OffNascarDerbyMphDemolitionDemolition Derby Author:Brock Yates
“Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter.” SaidShowsTodayNumbersMinutesGeniusLaughterWork OutEightRan Author:David Letterman
“When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.” NeedsMomentsEarthHoursGrowingMinutesEightSeedsKeep Going Author:Ruth Asawa
“Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.” UseMinutesReadyMonthsEightExpectedPreparationMinorsOrbitGlitches Author:Laurel Clark
“Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.” MindBodyNightHoursSleepWatchesMinutesTvsBedEightCriticalNineSlow DownDisturbingInvigorating Author:Richard Simmons
“Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.” PeopleImportantLastsLife IsEnjoyHoursTalkingMinutesEightToxicMumNot TalkingShort LifeParasitesHow Short Life IsTime For Yourself Author:Ludivine Sagnier
“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
“It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!” YearsHoursMinutesAccountsRateEightBudgetsNational Debt Author:Richard Darman
“It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.” MenGivingMindLostLeftSexFeltHoursMinutesSceneEmptyTiredSlaveAffairPassionateEightInsaneFortyLastingMaking LovePillsMe AloneLasting LoveReally SadPoppingGetting TiredPsychopathicHe Left MeForty Eight Author:Edie Sedgwick
“Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take about eight or ten minutes before I preach, after we've sung, and invite people to come forward for prayer. That's a tender moment to me. I don't preach much in that, but I like to speak to the people.” PeopleMomentsSpeakPrayerMiddleMinutesTenEightInvitesFlocksPrayer Time Author:Max Lucado
“I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.” GivingProblemMinutesStageCoupleBreathsSevenStudiosEightFranceSatHospitalsIncidentsSeven DaysValveShortness Author:Al Jarreau
“The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.” ShouldKindTwoMatterPlayWould BeAsksHoursBrainPracticeFourMinutesFingersEightActiveConcentrationMaximumPupils Author:Leopold Auer
“There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative.” WorldFeelsPersonsIdeasDifferentHappensTogetherMinutesMusic IsEightHearingThings HappenNarrativeAmbientAmbient Music Author:Missy Mazzoli
“I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.” PeopleWantNeedsWholeFacesStuffProcessSoundHoursFiveMinutesFineGoes OnPainfulEightYour FaceTapeAwkwardCastingFive MinutesAdjustmentDraining Author:Mike Judge
“What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.” PeopleFeelsStillsSeemsLeftFiveAirMinutesSeriesFinalsEightSettingVideoFlightSettingsPlanesRoutineSecondsGravityFive MinutesComets Author:Damian Kulash
“Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did not know that adult humans dream 90 minutes per night, and that newborns spend eight hours per day dreaming (out of their 16 hours of sleep). REM sleep helps grow the brain!” KnowsHumansHelpingDreamNightGrowsHoursMemoriesSleepBrainTechnologyModernMinutesBenefitsAdultsEightElusiveModern Technology Author:Charles McPhee
“I have an eight-year-old girl and she does have some appreciation for fashion, but she's stuck in that: "Oh my God, this is cute" phase, so when I go shopping with her and my wife, I can only last about 10 minutes before I have to start exploring other parts of the store.” YearsDoeI CanLastsGirlWifeMinutesFashionAppreciationEightMy WifeStoresStuckCuteShoppingPhasesExploring Author:Bode Miller