“You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.” PeopleThinkingKnowsAbleImagineMinutesDumbRopeSkip Author:John Irving
“Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTwoIdeasHomeAblePurposeHouseParentMinutesRootsSellsInvestmentChosenPrincipalFurniture Author:Sister Parish
“Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.” PeopleGivingWalksMorningMinutesPersonalityOceanBlueBrilliantItalianPotAsianMeltingSuburbsSydneyEclecticMelting PotEclectic StyleBlue Ocean Author:Baz Luhrmann
“Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.” PeopleTryingWellsFilmChoicesLinesMinutesDirectorsDetailsBroadsStrokesSubtletyBetween The Lines Author:Sylvester Stallone
“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
“A lot of times people will send me stuff. They will find something and they will send it to me and then I will take a look at it. Every once in awhile I will go on IMDB for 10 or 15 minutes and look around. But I am not a huge gearhead. I don't even have my own computer. I use my girlfriends.” PeopleLooksUseStuffMy OwnMinutesHugeGoes OnComputerGirlfriendMy Girlfriend Author:Michael Shannon
“Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.” PeopleFeelsSelfFiveMinutesLove YouConsciousHollywoodStudiosSuitsFive MinutesSelf Conscious Author:Eva Green
“Nobody's good. I hate it. I truly hate it. I mean, there's a lot of guys doing stuff I admire, but stand-up-wise I feel very alone. I really miss Bill Hicks. I wish I could have put him on my show. And I really miss Sam Kinison a lot. Richard Pryor's sick... It's like you get here and then, oh wait a minute, there's nobody here any more. I feel like the guy who finally got into Studio 54, three years too late, Duh, where are all the famous people?” PeopleFeelsYearsMeanShowsGuyHateThreeWishStuffWaitingWiseMinutesMissingLike YouLateSickI HateBillsStudiosAdmireToo LateThree YearsDuhHicksStudio 54 Author:Chris Rock
“I go the gym and I try to run on the treadmill and I listen to music but it doesn't motivate me enough. So I'm going to get a recording of a pack of wolves gaining on me. People would be like, 'Why is that guy crying on that treadmill over there?' 'I don't know, but he's been yelling, 'help' for like 20 minutes. He's getting a good workout.” PeopleKnowsTryingEnoughHelpingWould BeRunningGuyMinutesCryGymPacksGood WorkWorkoutListening To MusicThat GuyYellingTreadmillsGood WorkoutPacks Of Wolves Author:Demetri Martin
“What is eternity? You're on the checkout line at a supermarket. There are seven people in front of you. They are all old. They all have two carts and coupons for every item. They are all paying by check. None of them have ID. It's the checkout girl's first day on the job. She doesn't speak any English. Take away fifteen minutes from that, and you begin to get an idea of what eternity is.” PeopleFirstsTwoIdeasJobsGirlSpeakLinesMinutesFrontsEternitySevenChecksFifteenItemsSupermarketsCartsCheckouts Author:Emo Philips
“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
“Strip clubs are great places to meet interesting people you only wanna know for about 40 minutes.” PeopleKnowsInterestingMinutesClubs Author:Dane Cook
“There are plans for a new high-speed train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It will make the trip time 30 minutes. People in L.A. are like, Yes! And people in San Francisco are like, Yeah, sure, great. We look forward to seeing you.” PeopleLooksPlansSeeingMinutesYeahTrainSpeedLos AngelesSan FranciscoHigh Speed Author:Craig Ferguson
“After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.” PeopleLostGriefSilenceMinutesWorstHonorEmpathyVictimOur SocietyOctoberBombingAnkara Author:Elif Safak
“Oil is sixty dollars a barrel. There are terrorists everywhere. We have a catastrophe in our world every ten minutes. I don't know how anybody's getting through anything. Right now, people just need to be entertained.” PeopleKnowsWorldNeedsKnow HowMinutesRight NowTenDollarsOilTerroristOur WorldSixtyCatastropheBarrels Author:Bob Saget
“I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.” PeopleHoursMinutesMetsEncountersEntertainers Author:Chris Tucker
“You can microwave a Pop Tart. That just blew me away that you could do that. How long does it take to toast a Pop Tart? A minute and a half if you want it dark? People don't have that kind of time? Listen, if you need to zap-fry your Pop Tarts before you head out the door, you might want to loosen up your schedule.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsKindLongDoeMightDarkHalfDoorsMinutesPopsSchedulesToastsMicrowavesTarts Author:Brian Regan
“It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.” PeopleWayMindTwoSimpleAttentionAudienceMinutesPagesPreparedImpressionPay AttentionFrame Of MindGags Author:Frank Caliendo
“Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.” PeopleIfsMinutes Author:Dolly Parton
“I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsBelieveHeartMadeEndsWould BeDiesWinningMinutesWillingReadyMethodCommittedCampaignsViolentUnnecessaryIf You BelieveMisleadReady To DieWilling To Die Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you make exercise your hobby instead of your enemy it becomes your friend; it's the one thing that will never let you down. It will always be there for you and it will always make you better than you were before. Remember: every time you go to the gym, every time you put the right supplement in your mouth, you're better than you were ten minutes ago. [...] The irony is most people know what to do, they just don't do what they know.” PeopleIfsKnowsRememberEnemyOne ThingMinutesExerciseTenMouthsIronyGymHobbiesBetter Than YouSupplements Author:Sylvester Stallone
“We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.” PeopleFirstsSchoolLawWalksCasesMinutesTrainLawyerTelling The TruthRepresentingLaw School Author:Gerry Spence
“People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.” PeopleMenPresidentWiseDoorsMinutesTerribleFuneralTerrible Things Author:Nancy Reagan
“You can only stare at a clown mask so long. After a few minutes it's no big deal anymore. So people start paying attention to the music instead of what the clown is doing, or what he is wearing, or how cool his spikey hair is.” PeopleLongBigsDealsAttentionMinutesHairPay AttentionStaringMaskClownBig Deal Author:Paul Gray
“How many of you heard the voice of God speak specifically, clearly, directly, and personally, to you? Can you just put a hand up? I'd like you to share it. Can you put a hand up for a minute? Just want you to look around; that's people saying, "God Almighty, the Maker of heaven, the one Who's sitting on the only throne that's not under threat - He spoke to me. He spoke to me." "God spoke to me." Don't let the voice of the darkness tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you. Don't let him tell you, you don't matter. God spoke to you.” PeopleWantLooksMatterHandsSpeakHeavenVoiceDarknessHeardShareMinutesLike YouSittingThreatSpokesMakersAlmightyThronesVoice Of GodHands Up Author:Louie Giglio
“I don't understand how a musician can play 90 minutes on stage and then not dedicate a little bit of time to hang out at their merch table. It's not like digging a ditch or something; you're standing there thanking people for coming out to see you.” PeopleLittlesPlayBitsMinutesStageLittle BitMusicianStandingTablesHanging OutComing OutDiggingStanding There Author:Aaron Watson
“We hear the same refrain all the time from people: I have no life. I get up in the morning, daycare, eldercare, a 40 minute commute to work. I have to work late. I get home at night, there's laundry, bills to pay, jam something into the microwave oven. I'm exhausted, I go to sleep, I wake up and the routine begins all over again. This is what life has become in America.” PeopleHomeAmericaNightSleepPayMorningMinutesLateWake UpBillsGet UpRoutineExhaustedJamGoing To SleepRefrainLaundryOvensMicrowavesDaycareBills To Pay Author:Gerald Celente
“In L.A., a lot of comics live here, but we don't get to spend that much time together because we've got to drive 45 minutes home, or do another set. So in San Francisco we can hang out, go for dinner - the community aspect of it is really lovely, as well as seeing people's shows that you don't normally get to see a longer version of.” PeopleWellsShowsHomeTogetherCommunitySeeingMinutesAspectDinnerLovelyVersionsHanging OutSan FranciscoTime Together Author:Maria Bamford
“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
“I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.” PeopleWritingSometimesSongForgetMinutes Author:Alanis Morissette
“Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.” PeopleYearsMayPersonsMinutesTenNegativeArgumentNegative People Author:Jeffrey Gitomer
“People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.” PeopleValuesMinutesRealisingImmenseSpares Author:Orison Swett Marden
“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.” PeopleYearsChildrenMadeSaidI CanRememberThreeFourMinutesGoes OnReaderTenConversationPagesYears AgoMemoirDialogueEthicalSixtySmall ChildPact Author:Paul Auster
“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
“It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.” PeopleIfsThinkingJesusChristImpossibleTeachingMinutesRepublicanJesus ChristCaughtBehaveCaught Up Author:Neil Peart
“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
“The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.” PeopleNeedsShouldLooksFactsDecisionMinutesListeningConflictWeaponsExpectedNuclearZoneCracksUnusualNuclear WeaponsRhetoricGave UpPrecedentConcessions Author:Michael Hastings
“People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.” PeopleGivenSawsRightsMinutesCitizensConstitutionPrivilegeUnderwearAmerican CitizensImmunityBombersInterrogation Author:Michele Bachmann
“I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.” PeopleWayWritingKindDifferentStatesPlayPoliticalSongCoursesBitsDifficultPiecesMinutesAchieveFindingsMessagesMovedBlissSentimentsDifferent KindsPreachingKnockingBits And PiecesDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Dean Wareham
“A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.” PeopleIfsWantReasonMinutesMissingSingingImpactDetailsChinaCommunismCartoonThesisPhdsImpact On Society Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.” PeopleFirstsPersonsRealEndsWholeWantedNightChallengesKnowingMinutesMetsConversationOceanShotsSittingWhole LifeNakedAssBeachSecondsNot KnowingSkinnyBucksPacificPacific OceanLining Up Author:Richard Masur
“I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I'm a Libra! I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone. If I can have even a twenty-minute walk or swim and another twenty quiet minutes to myself at night, I can be much more giving all day long.” PeopleIfsGivingFeelsLongI CanNightWalksMinutesBalanceQuietTwentiesSwimStableGroundedCraveMe AloneAlone Time Author:Laura Regan
“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
“As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the ideas that these people pursued or developed or created and I'd be really excited. Then I'll start to read it and I think, "Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn't a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself."” PeopleThinkingLittlesIdeasKidsBitsWaitingMinutesLittle BitPhilosopherExcitedHolesThinkerTicketsTheologianRabbitsPursuedGatewaysRabbit Holes Author:Will Oldham
“You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.” PeopleHardPastMinutesExtraordinaryListening To MusicOver The Past Author:Will Oldham
“My concept was, within the five-minute video, for people to see one million Buddhas. So I made a group of the images and it keeps accelerating to reach this one million point. The movie was invented from the still photos.” PeopleMadeStillsMillionsFiveGroupsMinutesConceptsVideoFive Minutes Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“The type of person that might thrive on Vine in a six-second clip might not be the same kind of entertainer who would shine on a 10-minute vlog on YouTube. If anything, having these different platforms gives more people a chance to creatively express themselves.” PeopleIfsGivingKindPersonsDifferentMightChanceMinutesTypeSixShiningThrivePlatformsYoutubeEntertainersVinesClipShine On Author:Tyler Oakley
“I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas.” PeopleThinkingMeanReasonStoriesComedyMinutesDrama Author:Judd Apatow
“Yes, it leads people to believe that they have more information than our cops, but then, at some point, before you know it, you're both caught up. Everybody, when they're watching the who-dun-it shows, is making guesses in the first five minutes anyway. We just kind of give them what they want.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingFirstsBelieveKindShowsFiveMinutesInformationCaughtCopCaught UpFive Minutes Author:Kristin Lehman
“One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that they cope with their job is by using a lot of inappropriate humour. It's really a lovely opportunity to try to challenge our ideas of what it is to deal with complex issues, and that they're not always dower. Having that kind of humour along with the pathos for what people are going through is a really nice challenge.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsKindIdeasJobsOpportunityChallengesDealsIssuesNiceMinutesHumourPoliceComplexesLovelyOfficersReally NicePolice OfficerInappropriatePathos Author:Kristin Lehman