“I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.” WalksMinutesMilesHuffing Author:Jessye Norman
“I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!” MenWayWantUseHomeBeautifulChurchDarkWalksRaceDarknessFiveMinutesPaintFlatsRomeFive Minutes Author:Taiye Selasi
“Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.” HouseHoursWalksHalfFiveMinutesRocksFive MinutesParadesHalf Hours Author:Jason Sudeikis
“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksMadeTwoWholeFilmCertainWalksMinutesHavensPaintingConsumedGalleryDown Time Author:Julie Mehretu
“Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a “void”. Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they’ll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they’re nowhere to be found.” NeedsTryingMomentsHandsFoundBitsWalksMinutesInstantVoidBlanketAlways TryingNeedy Author:Nicole McKay
“The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.” PeopleWorldImportantRealReadingHoursPrayerWalksMeditationMinutesHabitSolitudeQuietReal WorldQuiet TimeInspirational PrayerInspirational Reading Author:Ken Blanchard
“Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.” HouseWalksFiveMinutesMadPhotographerWaveCigaretteFive Minutes Author:Noel Gallagher
“Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.” MayHas BeensTwoStoriesFilmThreeHoursLinesWalksVisionGraceMinutesSpecialEffectsSurpriseLove StoryAdmireOriginalityPearlsHarborsDecemberStunningSpecial EffectsTrianglesBanalityLove TriangleQuotingRedundantCenterpiecesSurprise AttacksDecember 7December 7 1941 Author:Roger Ebert
“I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.” I CanBitsWalksMinutesBranchesCircusOxfordPigeonsFerretsTopshop Author:Ashley Madekwe
“A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.'” PeopleLooksWaitingAnswersWalksMinutesCoupleHusbandLook UpApartmentCeilingsUpstairsLandlord Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.” MindHeartStillsSoulRealityPainFoundGrowsSidesWalksPleasureSkyMinutesMy HeartBlessingMountainMilesTreasureGoldenHillsDesertSolitaryAbyssHeart And SoulGlowingRecollectionPain And PleasureMy BlessingFar SideDays To Come Author:Edward Abbey
“My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.” WayWellsHas BeensFilmFeltWalksSituationFiveMinutesI RealizedFive MinutesBiggest FearOverreaching Author:Anne Hathaway
“Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.” KnowsWorldYearsDoeTwoFactsSeemsEarthMovingTimeTurnsReadingWalksOur LivesMinutesReaderTenCrossesTwentiesPassingPassingsNovelistsThirtyThirty Years Author:Marcel Proust
“The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly from one to another, often to unrelated thoughts, without you controlling where they go. This brain state acts as a neural reset button, allowing us to come back to our work with a refreshed perspective. Different people find they enter this mode in different ways: reading, a walk in nature, looking at art, meditating, and napping. A 15-minute nap can produce the equivalent of a 10-point boost in IQ.” PeopleWayMindArtDifferentStatesMovingReadingWalksBrainMinutesProducePerspectiveWanderDifferent WaysAllowingButtonsDifferent PeoplesWithout YouNapsMeditatingBoostResetWalks In NatureReset Button Author:Daniel Levitin
“When I was a kid you didn't have Twitter or Instagram where as soon as you walk out of a building a photo of you is up within two minutes or a million people are commenting and saying nasty things. I found a different confidence because I realized that you can't base your self-worth on the opinions of others.” PeopleTwoDifferentSelfKidsFoundWalksOpinionMillionsMinutesBuildingConfidenceI RealizedSelf WorthNastyInstagram Author:Rumer Willis
“A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."” MenSaidFeelingsHumorFunnyThreeWalksMinutesHe ManDoctorsSorryEggsHospitalsSaying Sorry Author:Frank Carson
“The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.” RealRealityRunningKidsFacesWalksDoorsMinutesArmsReal LifeDoseDose Of Reality Author:Faith Hill
“Even here, in the U.S., I walk my daughter's dog and I look for interesting people sitting at a picnic table and I walk over with my white hair and I ask, "Would you mind if I sat and rested here for a minute?" Nobody would refuse that.” PeopleIfsMindLooksAsksWhiteWalksInterestingMinutesDogHairDaughterSittingTablesRefuseSatMy DaughterPicnicsWhite Hair Author:Rita Gelman
“If I found myself alone on planet Earth, no other humans, I would have sex with a monkey in like two minutes. Two minutes. That's really not long enough to be sure you're alone on the Earth, even. That's like... I walk outside, it's- there's not much traffic. "Oh, my God, it's just me! I'm gonna have sex with a monkey right now. Oh, no-there's a person."” IfsHumansPersonsLongTwoEnoughEarthFunnyFoundSexWalksComedyMinutesPlanetsRight NowTrafficMonkeysPlanet Earth Author:Louis C. K.
“A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to be subject proof. Because you usually only have a few minutes with the person. You never know who's going to walk into the room - whether they're going to be friendly, grumpy, sick of photographers, or between meetings.” KnowsPersonsReasonChallengesWalksRoomsMinutesSubjectsShotsSickMeetingsPhotographerProofFriendlyGrumpy Author:Gregory Heisler
“One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that looks a little bit deeper and sees things that other people might not see in you - sometimes you might not even see in yourself - but that he knows are there and that he might want to get to grow and stretch with as an actor.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksLittlesSometimesMightActorsGrowsBitsWalksRoomsMinutesLittle BitDeeperIntuitionHeyThings I LoveMurphy Author:Matt Bomer
“The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.” ChurchWalksMinutesMissionsSundayTerritoryChurch On Sunday Author:Robert Barron
“I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside.” TryingThreeHoursWalksWeekMinutesGymHikingThree TimesTreadmills Author:Ana de la Reguera
“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
“If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.” IfsWalksFiveStreetsMinutesFive MinutesObese Author:Carnie Wilson
“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
“I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.” WaySeemsLastsWaitingWalksMinutesPressureMilesExtrasHomeworkUnder PressureLast MinuteExtra MileBummed Out Author:Steven Tyler
“When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes” ThinkingUsedWalksMinutesShoppingCentreDarren Author:Darren Hayes
“My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.” GivingLittlesHouseWalksWifeSeaMinutesBrotherMy WifeBoardsIslandsBagsCrossingsCruise Author:Nick Frost
“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
“Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.” MindI CanBodyLanguageHoursWalksMinutesPagesSittingTwentiesGet UpDesks Author:Paul Auster
“A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me.” WorldWholeSongThreeWalksPerfectImpossibleMinutesNew YorkEternalPopsWhole WorldHuntingGatheringPop SongCupcakes Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.” IfsIdeasThreeWalksPerfectLevelsSituationMinutesHighestStudios Author:St. Lucia
“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
“As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.” LooksActorsWalksRoomsFiveMinutesDirectorsAuditionsCastingFive MinutesCasting Directors Author:Mark Duplass
“Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.” ThinkingLongHappensHoursSleepWalksImagineMinutesFrontsTenNosesDaylightSmartphonesLong Walks Author:Daniel Kahneman
“Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone and get back up into my dressing room for the rest of my costume. I get snapped into all these things and layers and bundled up. I walk downstairs to the pit. Someone hands me my baton (which lights up like a wand) and I watch the first three minutes of the show. Then I come up out of the pit and there I am.” FirstsShowsHandsLightThreeWalksRoomsWatchesMinutesShiningCome UpDryHatsGet BackTapeLayersCostumesDressingsPitsMicrophonesLight UpWandsDressing RoomsBatonTop Hats Author:Tituss Burgess
“Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.” MadeImportantJobsDecisionWalksRoomsActingMinutesColorHairSkinsBe GoodSkin Color Author:Rashida Jones
“Just walking in the kitchen (and we have three kitchens at Le Bernardin), I exercise quite a lot. I also walk in Central Park for 50 minutes from my house to Le Bernardin every day, rain, shine, snow.” ThreeHouseWalksMinutesWalkingExerciseRainShiningSnowKitchenParksCentral Park Author:Eric Ripert
“The 20-minute walk I take is better than the 3-mile run I never start. Having people over for take-out is better than never having people to an elegant dinner party.” PeopleRunningWalksPartyMinutesDinnerMilesElegantDinner Party Author:Gretchen Rubin