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“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.”

Ifs Want Stills Running Three Hours Four Minutes Ought Nine Want Something Visitors

Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.”

People Feelings Four Journey Minutes Zero Evoke

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.”

Should Writing Firsts Two School Lasts Voice Four Minutes Terrible Drama Seven My Best Friend Gigs Gags

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“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.”

Heart Done Body Four Minutes Training Rate Eight Fats Seconds Intensity Roof Heart Rate

Author:Arjun Rampal

“I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”

People Firsts Littles Remember Night Church Four Minutes Cold Ten Tiny Nervous Florida Sermons Cold Night

Author:Billy Graham

“what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.”

World Way Reason Four Minutes Good Life Aces

Author:Mae West

“If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.”

Ifs Looks Enough Nations Hours Imagination Four Minutes Needed Terror France Look Up Poetic Frightened One Hour

Author:Madame de Stael

“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.”

Book Three Forget Healing Cases Taken Four Minutes Ten Doctors Sick Dollars Medicine Medical Physicians Lectures Dissection

Book:FRESH LEAVES

Source: FRESH LEAVES

“[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.”

Shows Four Minutes Stage Mom Speed Honey Invitations Ed Sullivan

Author:Moms Mabley

“If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.”

Ifs Trying Hours Doubt Four Minutes Internet Connections Cells Relative Fifteen Stretching Input Ultras Supervisors Cubicles Internet Connection

Author:Rob Payne

“Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on.”

“You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.”

Would Be Four Minutes Glory Tales Fairy Cake Fairy Tale Olympics

Author:Dorothy Hamill

“I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.”

People Stories Three Stuff Sports Lines Four Minutes Glory Tough Standing Reach Out Gravity Skating Defying

Author:Kurt Browning

“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.”

World Use Certain Hours Differences Common Four Minutes This World Twenties Seconds Sixty Sixty Minutes

Author:Lou Holtz

“Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.”

Kids Four Minutes Get Back

Author:Graydon Carter

“Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.”

Knows World Happens Goal Know How Four Minutes Finals Cups World Cup Cup Finals

Author:Abby Wambach

“California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'”

Economy Four Minutes Asking California Candidates Better Off

Author:Craig Kilborn

“Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.”

Home Running Reading Four Minutes Activity Equal Sticks Endure Delight Miles Thrilling Hearted Slam Home Run Stout Keenness Slam Dunk

Author:Irving Stone

“When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.”

Years Wanted Four Minutes My Family Four Years Animator Blown Away Fantasia

Author:David Bolinsky

“I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.”

“You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.”

Knows Hours Audience Too Much Four Minutes Nervous Fifty

Author:Agnes Varda

“The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.”

Way Years Humans Long Church Human Beings Four Minutes Bases Distance Block Abortion Auschwitz Barbaric Dachau Buchenwald

Author:John Piper

“The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.”

Writing Years Mind Long Stills Character Song Millions Four Minutes Years Ago Instruments I Realized Followers Outlets Tweet 140 Character

Author:John Mayer

“I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.”

“I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.”

Mind I Can Four Minutes Baby Max Fussing

Author:Hugh Grant

“If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Whole Character Stories Waiting Four Minutes Impact Toms Springsteen

Author:Tim Leffel

“The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.”

Break Morning Four Minutes Athlete Miles Every Morning

Author:Irving Stone

“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.”

Should Kind Two Matter Play Would Be Asks Hours Brain Practice Four Minutes Fingers Eight Active Concentration Maximum Pupils

Author:Leopold Auer

“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.”

“If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.”

Ifs Bigs Differences Watches Four Minutes Late One Minute

Author:Zig Ziglar

“The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.”

Whole Hours Half Watches Four Minutes Effects Twenties Spread Aids Wheels Labour Exertion Insensible Winding Up

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“At any minute, I am four minutes from a poncho.”

Four Minutes Ponchos

Author:Demetri Martin

“I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.”

Thinking Trying Different Shows Problem Form Asks Five Four Minutes Starting Drawing Different Things Five Minutes Playing Music Starting Out

Author:Demetri Martin

“I remember the first day I got there, they started the take and after four takes I was on the ground, on my back, with a banana and a Twizzler in my hand, and my face was green, and they said, "You can't get back on set for another 30 minutes." That was a, "Welcome to Atlanta," and that put everything in perspective.”

Firsts Said Hands Remember Faces Four Minutes Perspective Green Welcome Get Back They Said Bananas Atlanta

Author:Steven Yeun

“Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.”

Writing Years Process Four Minutes Months Painful

Author:Five for Fighting

“It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.”

People Years Children Made Said I Can Remember Three Four Minutes Goes On Reader Ten Conversation Pages Years Ago Memoir Dialogue Ethical Sixty Small Child Pact

Author:Paul Auster

“I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging.”

Knows Character Bigs Challenges Four Minutes Fit Format Big Challenges Lead Characters

Author:Mark Duplass

“I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.”

Trying Hands Song Four Minutes Fit Focused Singers

Author:Dan Bejar

“Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores a prison sequence, and it lines up with five different, smaller scenes within one large scene.”

Different Process Lines Five Four Minutes Example Scene Prison Sequence Good Examples Anthem

Author:Jeff Britting

“You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and the sketches are always three or four minutes too long.”

Long Shows Three Four Minutes Jokes Variety Repeats

Author:Eric Andre

“The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button.”

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