#minutes

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#love is #minutes #noises #seconds

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#believe #i #into #just #man

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#between #choruses #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#flight #forces #had #i #just

It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#been #fame #minutes #ride #tremendous

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#drop #five #hot #i #like

Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely? ↗

— Jackie Collins

#five #hours #minutes #nicely #ready

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there. ↗

— Darrell Hammond

#department #director #florida #health #home

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#again #been #caucus #changes #country