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“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.”

World Use Certain Hours Differences Common Four Minutes This World Twenties Seconds Sixty Sixty Minutes

Author:Lou Holtz

“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.”

Ifs Years May Happens Today Social Hours Week Minutes Media Months Messages Mouths Years Ago Twenties Social Media Customers Horrible Seconds Word Of Mouth

Author:Bill Capodagli

“Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.”

Two Life Is Joy Minutes Twenties Misery Seconds Life Is Like

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.”

World Looks Said Two Eye Stars Answers Months Sorrow Quiet Twenties Spokes Cracks Seconds Burned Curtains Max Outside World Reproach Two Months Astonishment Corridors Papa Twenty Two No Anger

Author:Markus Zusak

“She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backwards, right into Nico's sword. "Nice one," Paul said. "When did you learn to fire a shotgun?" I demanded. My mom blew the hair out of her face. "About two seconds ago. Percy, we'll be fine. Go!”

Said Two Hands Faces Fire Nice Feet Hair Fine Mom Twenties My Mom Monsters Giants Seconds Backwards Blast Umbrella Pumps Shotguns

Author:Rick Riordan

“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”

People Thinking Half Tvs Hundred Thirds Twenties Average Advertising Sensations Substitutes Seconds Sixty Mass Media Clip Tv Commercial

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.”

Ifs Years Girl Energy Brain Huge Decided Thirds Twenties Seconds Deaf Seventeen Seventeen Years Old

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.”

Ifs Firsts Two Lasts Moving Attention Quality Special Century Expectations Shots Twenties Bored Length Seconds Intensity Moron Friction

Author:Geoff Dyer

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

“Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'”

People Looks War Actors Stars Half Company Return Six Program Twenties Theater Credit Seconds Envious I Smile

Author:Caroline Blakiston

“Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five