“If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.” IfsWantEndsMightHappensNextMinutesWhat You WantDamnWarningOne Minute Book:Steel Guitar Source: Steel Guitar
“Memories are so two-faced. One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.” LongTwoNextLostMemoriesEnemyMinutesWorstLike YouHugWorst EnemyOne MinuteLost Friend Book:Tomorrow River Source: Tomorrow River
“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.” WorldDifferentEyeRunningAbleMovingNextSexDifferencesDoorsMinutesAcceptanceOfficeDaughterDistanceNeighborArguingPartnersTolerancePostsSubtleGuestsColleaguesInvitedWhisperingDifferent WorldsMatthewChasmsPost OfficePreschoolNext Door Neighbors Book:Sing You Home: A Novel Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.” PeopleHomeNextMinutesStageQuietYellingOne MinuteYelling And Screaming Author:Carrot Top
“The best way to know how Virender Sehwag's mind works is to sit next to him in the players' balcony when India are batting. Every few minutes he will clutch his head and yell, 'Chauka gaya' or 'Chhakka gaya'.” KnowsWayMindNextKnow HowPlayerMinutesIndiaBest WayClutchBattingBalconies Author:Sourav Ganguly
“Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.” IfsKnowsEndsNextCompanyRecordsPiecesMinutesMeatThe End Of The DayRecord Companies Author:Enrique Iglesias
“I watch America's Next Top Model in the gym and go, 'If I stay an extra 15 minutes, I will look like that girl!'” IfsLooksAmericaGirlNextWatchesMinutesModelsExtrasGymThat GirlIf I StayTop Model Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“We would all be better off if our doctors took us aside, sat down next to us, and gave us this compassionate, yet universally true, warning, I'm very sorry to have to remind you of this, but you've got only so much time to live; I suggest you begin, now, to make the most of every minute of every day.” IfsNextMinutesDoctorsSorrySatWarningCompassionateBetter Off Author:Bill Phillips
“When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.” PeopleKnowsLittlesLastsNextBitsMinutesTelevisionLittle BitFasterShockEpisodesSchedulesLast Minute Author:Charisma Carpenter
“I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.” ThreeNextMinutesOne Minute Author:Taylor Swift
“Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!” KnowsSaidBigsNextSportsHurtLinesWhiteCitiesHappenedMinutesCarBusConcentratingOne MinuteHoustonWhitneySports CarsCity Bus Author:Jay Leno
“You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.” KnowsNextLeftEasySleepForgetTakenToo MuchMinutesCoupleWake UpTwentiesPillsIrresponsibleMedicationForget YouLeft AloneSleeping Pills Author:Judy Garland
“Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingYearsGuyNextPresidentTalkingMinutesOughtKingsDollarsPhonesCellsFortyDeep DownCell PhoneLarryWaiterOne MinuteDeceptive Author:Don Rickles
“According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap heaven. He's a convicted drug dealer who's been shot nine times, and she spent 84 minutes in prison. This is a big step for Lindsay. The last time Lindsay got near a black guy she ran over his foot.” MayMadeBigsLastsGuyNextHeavenBlackStepsFeetMinutesStyleDrugShotsPrisonAlbumsRapNineRanCentsLast TimeDealerDrug DealersBlack Guys Author:Chelsea Handler
“Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.” KnowsNextFiveMinutesCarStationsFive MinutesClosingBuffets Author:Oscar Wilde
“I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.” TryingYearsWellsKindMeanSaidRealHomeJobsNextNamesStuffWaitingChurchPerfectMinutesYouthBandFindingsMercyPhonesGrandmotherCall MeTexasFloridaEnd TimesMy GrandmotherSpend TimeNext YearDallasStaplesReal JobsChalkDallas TexasAnswering The Phone Author:Bart Millard
“I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.” WayKindLittlesBodyNextMillionsCasesNovelMinutesSceneMarinePrecariousReefsCoral Reefs Author:Dean Koontz
“I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old.” IfsFeelsYearsWould BePoliticalNextStrongFiveMinutesJokesFive MinutesOutdatedPolitical Jokes Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set up the next shot, I'm behind the Avid, putting the flick together.” TogetherNextHoursRoomsBehindsMinutesShotsShootingEditingCrewAvid Author:Kevin Smith
“Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.” PeopleBelieveHappensNextChanceMinutesCenturyDependsEntertainmentLive LifeSecondsNinety Author:Seth Godin
“People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, "Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine."” PeopleMightNextStuffFiveMinutesTenMadMessNext TimeCocaine Author:Moses Malone
“I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn't miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I'd be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them.” PeopleThinkingGivingTwoSongNextChanceSleepSupportSawsHeardMinutesMissingTearsMonthsVoteVideoOnlineBowlsFunny ThingsAmazing ThingsSuper BowlMost AmazingTwo MonthsVote For Me Author:Kina Grannis
“I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.” IfsKnowsGivingFirstsLooksNextGoneMinutesHavensChangedGiving UpFirst TimeStudiosPianoThrill Author:Elton John
“Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.” WritingFirstsWellsMaySeemsTodayNightThreeNextSleepHappenedWeekMinutesEventsMonthsEasierExercisePleaseTenSixSticksEvery NightAwkwardOddsSix MonthsThree ThingsGoing To SleepNext WeekLife Happens Author:Daniel Kahneman
“My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.” FirstsGuyNextSilenceFiveTeamMinutesNew YorkTerribleIceBrokeSatInterviewsBusFive MinutesRangersFirst Date Author:Steve Rushin
“My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".” ThinkingSaidNextWinningMinutesCoachesTournaments Author:Serena Williams
“When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.” PeopleIfsDoeMadeReasonGuyNextActorsLinesBehindsHalfMinutesSceneCamerasMathCompromiseRuinsDumbMake SensePretending Author:Casey Affleck
“For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.” NeedsLongHas BeensEnoughStoriesBigsMightMovingNextPayAttentionMinutesMediaMissingInformationCommunicationEasierNewsHotPay AttentionThese DaysInstantScoreCyclesCoveredSixtyReportersOutletsNoveltyFiltersAlways MovingInstant CommunicationSixty Minutes Author:Arianna Huffington
“There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.” WayNextMinutesSunriseThere Is Always A Way Author:Ziggy Marley
“My kids! They run so hot and cold. One minute, I am in complete control and feeling like Supermom, then the next minute, my two-year-old is having a tantrum in line at the supermarket and is inconsolable, and I feel so helpless and I want to crawl in a hole.” WantFeelsYearsTwoFeelingsRunningKidsNextLinesMinutesColdHotHolesTwo YearsHelplessSupermarketsOne MinuteTwo Year OldsTantrumsHot And Cold Author:Kristen Taekman
“If every negotiation is conducted in public, then the minute one person says, well, what if we try this, next thing you know, the interest groups have piled all in, and the political opponents have shot it to pieces.” IfsKnowsTryingWellsPersonsPoliticalNextInterestPiecesGroupsMinutesShotsOpponentsWhat IfNegotiationInterest GroupsPolitical Opponents Author:Jonathan Rauch