#seconds

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#chance #could #course #dozens #easily

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion. ↗

— Don Adams

#even #forgotten #hour #i #i am

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. ↗

— Michael Apted

#compelling #craft #directors #filmmaking #five

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. ↗

— James Randi

#fifteen #just #microwave #new #new age

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know. ↗

— Claire Danes

#any #badly #case #club #flat

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. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#accent #because #cage #clash #class

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

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. ↗

— Tim Vine

#candles #couple #know #now #out

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#gift #god #say #seconds #thank

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cancer #climbing #doctors #early #elbow