Best Seconds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 17

“To make lashes curl better, take a hair dryer to your eyelash curler for one or two seconds before using it.”

Two Hair Seconds Curls Lashes Eyelashes Dryers Hair Dryers

“Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon comparison, and when we are fully aware in the present moment, when there is no past or future in our mind’s awareness, there is nothing to compare. There is only what is, as it is. The inner critic disappears.”

Mind Moments Past Minutes Awareness Depends Critics Disappear Compare Comparison Present Moment Seconds

Book:Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

Source: Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.”

Ifs Feels Walks Willing Corners Heat Flats Seconds Around The Corner

Author:Robert De Niro

“I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.”

Knows Children Stills Country Seems Dying Members Disease Happenings Silly Seconds Family Members Malaria

Author:Katharine McPhee

“I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.”

Would Be Class Gone Standards Opposites Odd Seconds Villain Accents Cages Clash Upper Class Cockneys

Author:Christopher Eccleston

“Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.”

Ifs Hard Three Seconds Superhero

Author:Hrithik Roshan

“I remember when I couldn't afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.”

Remember Treats Lifetime Seconds Honey Cheese Remember When San Francisco Rice Dessert Noodles Microwaves Buns Ramen

Author:Rick Ross

“My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.”

Lasts Suffering Hours Sleep Minutes Son My Son Seconds Disorder Autistic Seizures

Author:John Travolta

“It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.”

Ifs Years Whole Moments Earth Lasts Moving Universe Lost Levels Childhood Depends Six Whole Life Where You Are Seconds Relative Proven Prana

Author:Jaden Smith

“When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.”

Wanted Seconds Pilots Airline Airline Pilots

Author:John Barrowman

“In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.”

People Want Persons Order Actors Games Left Risk Type Balls Arrogance Seconds Personal Life

Author:Bryan Cranston

“"I love you" takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove.”

Love Hours Love You Prove Lifetime Seconds

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”

“You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.”

Moments Prayer Creation Praying Clock Knees Seconds Mice Tick Mickey

Book:Prove It! Prayer

Source: Prove It! Prayer

“I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds”

Persons Behavior Seconds Tolerate Bad Behavior

Author:Garrison Wynn

“Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life”

Stupid Average Brilliant Seconds Frustrating Rest Of Your Life Being Stupid

Author:Garrison Wynn

“And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.”

Firsts Change Four Car Cups Smoke Tea Wheels Seconds Helmet Cups Of Tea Schumacher

Author:Murray Walker

“Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.”

Has Beens Age Process Hours Dark Healing Normal Miracle Patient Cancer Extremes Disappear Medical Seconds Symptoms Dark Ages Acceleration Tuberculosis Ulcers

Author:Alexis Carrel

“I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!”

Two Facts Lasts Hours Couple Scene Sitting Setting Settings Seconds Fog Sitting Around Dozing

Author:Mackenzie Crook

“37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.”

Wells Used Lifetime Meaningful Seconds

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.”

Time Amount Jokes Seconds

Author:Alex Winter

“I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.”

People Lines Car Building Walking Shots Bored Seconds Elevators Walking Away

Author:Dick Wolf

“If Thirty Seconds to Mars was a human being then he fans would be the veins and the band would be the heart. The fans are what connect the essence of the music around the world and keep the us alive.”

Ifs World Humans Heart Would Be Human Beings Alive Fans Band Essence Around The World Thirty Seconds Mars Veins

Author:Shannon Leto

“The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!”

Thinking Universe Next Fun Fans Degrees Nine Cooks Seconds Next Time Pizza Venus

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.”

Moments School Hours Four Minutes Taught Taxes Twenties Moved Constant Rely Seconds Pace Load Things In Life Sixty Crap Never Change Moved On Sixty Minutes

Book:Effortless

Source: Effortless

“On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!”

“I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.”

Want Giving Lasts Fall Attention Laughing Late Dumb Seconds

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Once in a while, our thoughts drift and fade, back into the recessed hiding places where our memories are stored. At times we recall them- the memories of our loves, our youths, our life experiences. These dreams appear to us, and for seconds, minutes, or hours we are there once again.”

Dream Hours Memories Our Lives Minutes Youth Hiding Seconds Life Experience Fades Recalls Our Thoughts Our Love Our Memories Hiding Place

Author:James Michael

“I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.”

Thinking Matter Earth Dies Party Hell Optimistic Seconds Agnostic Hell On Earth

Author:Mike Dirnt

“I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.”

Looks Hate Forget I Hate Fishes Envy Miserable Seconds

Author:Daul Kim

“Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.”

Light Film Darkness Computer Shadow Series Photograph Seconds Splits Light And Shadow

Book:The Flick

Source: The Flick

“There are times when I can't stop speaking, when a million words leave my mouth in a matter of seconds… a million words that mean nothing… but when I want to find some words that mean everything, I just can't speak. Like: I miss you. Like: I love you. Like: My world is falling apart and I need you by my side.”

World Want Needs Mean I Can Matter Fall Speak Sides Millions Love You Missing Mouths Seconds Falling Apart Need You I Need You Love You Like I Love You Like

Author:Rae Earl

“I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.”

Trying Achieve Like You Safe Computer Distance Seconds

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and a foul so telegraphed that even the lenient referee seemed to have his card out a couple of seconds before contact was made, to show the first yellow of the game.”

Firsts Made Shows Games Mistake Player Air Football Couple Shots Contact Cards Soccer Seconds Yellow Finest Competence Foul Interrupted Referee Lenient

Author:Phil Cornwell

“How about a new game show called 'Battle Begala?' Contestants would pick any obscure bad thing that happened anywhere in the world, and Paul would have 10 seconds to explain why it is President Bush's fault.”

World Shows Games Politics President Happened Battle Picks Faults Bad Things Seconds Obscure President Bush Contestants Game Shows

Author:Ann Coulter

“Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.”

Funny Seconds Racing Twelve Motor Motor Racing

Author:Murray Walker

“And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.”

Done Funny Figures Rounds Seconds Racing Motor Motor Racing Whiskers

Author:Murray Walker

“When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.”

Mind Stills Two States Problem Happens Understanding Effort Meditation Quiet Response Seconds State Of Mind Relaxed Intervals

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti

“Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact with them communicate and reason with them.”

People Trying Firsts Children Reason Learning Emotional Communication Communicate Seconds Interaction Splits Initiative Engaging Involving Children Learning

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.”

Thinking Fall Fun Bars Celebrate Relax Seconds Jumping Exhilaration Aggressiveness

Author:Jenn Suhr

“There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff.”

Guy Five Ears Exciting Corners Boxing Seconds Bells Cliffs Other Guys Whispering Trainers Looking Down Mouthpiece

Author:George Foreman

“The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.”

Ifs May Feelings Suffering Modern Stage Objects Passing Passings Faster Sickness Finding Yourself Seconds Ovens Elementals Punching Microwaves

Author:James Gleick

“Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.”

People Writing Attention Novel Talent Jokes Regard Tables Dinner Narrative Dirty Thirty Seconds Dinner Table Announcing Dirty Jokes

Book:Bad Or, the Dumbing of America

Source: Bad Or, the Dumbing of America

“There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.”

People Want May Song Groups Particular Notion Collections Controlled Seconds Users

Author:Michael Nesmith

“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

Ifs World Wells May Made Dream Eye Stuff Wonder Acceptance Ten Laughter Paid Fantastic Rejection Seconds Factories Rest In Peace Apparitions

Author:Ray Bradbury

“My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.”

“If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.”

Ifs Reason Funny Lost New York Approach Humorous Helpful Seconds Spares New Yorkers Unsure Spare Change

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.”

“Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.”

Numbers Rounds Seconds Olympic Games

Author:Murray Walker

“I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.”

Whole Names Sky Share Summer Bird Speed Seconds Stationary

Author:Graham Swift

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