Home / Topics / Minutes Quotes

Minutes Quotes

Browse 4983 quotes about Minutes.

Minutes Quotes

“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.”

Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.”

Stills Eye Attention Practice Focus Minutes Reflection Ears Shoulders Admire Breathing Butterfly Her Beauty Inquiring

Book:The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind

Source: The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind

“If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.”

Ifs Mind Art Would Be Eye Desire Minutes Genius Succeed Painter Deception Addresses Deceiving

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.”

Eye Lasts Sun Minutes Humorous Balls Connected Wounds His Eyes Pitcher Last Minute Center Fielders

Author:Dizzy Dean

“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”

Way May Eye Care Behinds Happened Sea Minutes Scene Mountain Devil My Friends Wings Tranquility Eagles Summit Tents

Book:Last Places: A Journey in the North

Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North

“Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.”

Feels Eye Death Dies Minutes Dues Her Eyes

Author:Jose Saramago

“When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.”

Feels Shows Eye Acting Company Minutes Fool Scene Cameras Everyday Bounds Spending Everyday Life Censoring

Author:Cesar Romero

“children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.”

Children Made Eye Minutes Ears Observation

Book:Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew, and Chuck Weber fell on it. I clenched my fist, I turned around, and I closed my eyes and I said, 'This f-in game is over.'”

Said Eye Games Half Minutes Goes On Balls Down And Caught Nfl Fists Flew Chuck Weber

Author:Chuck Bednarik

“I told my team before we walked out on to the field in Tampa, I wanted them to stop and look each other in the eye - I mean really look each other in the eye because 10 minutes after we we're done beating the New York Giants, I knew that world would change; free agency, the business side of the business. I wanted them to appreciate this doesn't come very often. It may be the last time you have that opportunity.”

World Looks May Mean Done Eye Wanted Lasts Opportunity Sides Team Minutes New York Fields Appreciate Nfl Giants Agency Last Time Super Bowl Free Agency Tampa

Author:Brian Billick

“Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.”

Eye Minutes Eating Mouths Tongue Nuts Brazil Peppers Garlic Hazelnuts

Author:Andrea McLean

“Close your eyes and simply "feel" the spot your finger is touching. Then, after a couple of minutes, let your hands down. Continue to hold your attention on the spot just as you did when your finger was there.”

Feels Hands Eye Attention Meditation Minutes Buddhism Couple Fingers Spots Touching Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.”

Want Needs Eye Minutes Each Day

Author:Mark Thomas

“For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?”

Mind Eye Silence Minutes Mankind Ears

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .”

Ifs Humans Doe Two Eye Sound Human Beings Consciousness Sea Minutes Reader Explanation His Eyes Awkward Puzzled Compact

Book:The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson

“Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.”

“It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.”

Men Giving Eye Spirit Minutes Ten Mouths Newspapers Remarkable Irresponsible Through My Eyes

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.”

Feels Stills Eye Emotion Known Minutes Comfort Anxiety Affair Thank God Fearful Fifteen Thrones Overtaking

Author:John Wesley

“I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.”

Want Eye Community Minutes Fame Normal Clock Public Eye

Author:Tim Howard

“You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.”

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

“My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.”

Thinking Looks Eye Careers Minutes Excuse Honestly Managers Look At Me

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.”

Thinking Body Eye Levels Clear Minutes Dog Changed Ten Your Body Positive Thoughts Physiological Really Positive

Author:Moby

“I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.”

Knows World Different Eye Young Father Left Emotion Situation Minutes Grew Drug Grew Up Fingers Guitar Different Worlds Abusive Bad Situations

Author:DJ Ashba