#seconds

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. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#becomes #collection #create #group #may

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#days #headline #international #only #photo

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. ↗

— Sally Ride

#anxious #astronauts #because #excited #explosion

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. ↗

— Pappy Boyington

#few #flying #hours #seconds #sheer

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#just #lifetime #seconds #ten #training

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#could #even #i #like #me

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple. ↗

— Phil Knight

#explain #jordan #michael #michael jordan #much

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

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares! ↗

— Zac Efron

#basketball #basketball team #championships #day #double

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. ↗

— Ted Turner

#changes #down #eighth #every #few