“My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.” ShowsWantedMovingLeftWaterFireDoorsSonSummerRedKitchenMy SonSecondsEnginesShow MeSummer DaysSpilling Book:Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems Source: Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems
“We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.” WorldHardHappensKidsAgeEarthDiesWaterFivePlanetsCleanAccessRelateSecondsOur PlanetClean WaterSanitation Author:Matt Damon
“I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"” IfsLooksLongHumorFunnyActorsFunWaterSawsFeetAmountBallsHaving FunSecondsPoolMaximumJimmyGoggles Author:Mitch Hedberg
“If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'” PeopleIfsWantPoliticalGuyWaterSonSecondsFuneralDumpNancyYour Son Author:Peter King
“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsArtRunningGrowsWaterMediaTenSkillsPerceptionMessagesMassOppositesSecondsHookMake You ThinkIconicMass MediaSensationalVasesDoggedness Author:Robert Hughes