“You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.” WantSometimesLightRunningLastsMy OwnMinutesColorTerribleFaultsChasingIntangible Author:Claude Monet
“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.” ShouldWritingFirstsTwoSchoolLastsVoiceFourMinutesTerribleDramaSevenMy Best FriendGigsGags Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.” ShouldWellsSaidI CanIdeasProblemWaitingPayMinutesTerribleStrangerTherapyProcrastinationShould ITouringListen To Me Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.” ThinkingMenCountryStatesWholeFactsLyingTalkingFiveMinutesIgnoranceHugeTerriblePaidIraqTerroristHave FaithSeptemberFive MinutesCiaSeptember 11Not TalkingSaudisDividendsPublic EducationTerrorist AttacksCovertSeptember 11 2001JurorsBlatant Lies Author:Fran Lebowitz
“How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.” MomentsVoiceDarkMinutesTerribleMarkInsightClarityUselessClockSteadyAccusationUnbrokenFurnacesVenting Book:99 Poems: New & Selected Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.” IfsMenMindMadePlayRunningLastsFoundHalfNicePlayerMinutesFootballHugeTerribleBeatsNegativeTonightConcertsFifteenLiverpoolStreaksBarcelonaNice Man Author:Eamon
“I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!” HelpingSeemsFiveMinutesTerribleScreamFreakButterflyFive MinutesI Get Butterflies Author:Josh Groban
“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.” FirstsSometimesStoriesSeemsRememberFallConsciousnessFocusMinutesChangedTerribleClothesDiscoveryConsequenceFruitSurfaceAdamEmbarrassedThings ChangeEmbarrassmentModernismFiltersAdam And Eve Author:Philip Pullman
“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.” NeedsDoneWholeHappensPainLastsDesireFeltSecretAttentionDoorsMinutesStageTerribleRagePreparationAirplaneCrashThirstPreparingSuicidalHostilityAlleviateLast MinutePsychiatricParachutesVengeful Author:Tracy Thompson
“You can have terrible things happen in your family. A husband and wife can be having a knock-down, drag-out fight and the minute one of the kids gets hurt, the fight is over and it's about the family.” HappensKidsFightingHurtWifeMinutesTerribleHusbandThings HappenOur FamilyDragTerrible ThingsHusband And Wife Author:Sophia Bush
“The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.” CertainAnimalMusicClassMinutesEffectsTerribleHarmonyDelightConcertsThunder Book:A Philosophical Dictionary Source: A Philosophical Dictionary
“In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.” LooksLastsFacesDealsGoneFiveMinutesDogExpressionTerribleDisguiseFive MinutesMy DogRepose Author:Judy Holliday
“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
“When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.” WalksStepsFiveMinutesTerribleConflictFive MinutesTerrible Things Author:Viggo Mortensen
“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
“[Donald trump] was steamed about [Hillary] Clinton's suggestion that he might not be as rich as he says. So he ditched the email stuff and instead spend a couple of minutes defending the greatness of his income, his company, his debts, his bankers, his buildings - and then sort of forgot what he was talking about and wandered off into a riff about how terrible our infrastructure is.” MightStuffCompanyTalkingRichMinutesGreatnessBuildingTrumpCoupleTerribleClintonDebtIncomeSuggestionsEmailInfrastructureBankers Author:Kevin Drum