Seconds' Quotes
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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More Seconds' Quotes
Their gaze met for a few seconds. The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.
dan abnett— First & Only (2000). Games Workshop.
I remember the last time we were in the studio that Nick (Mason) ripped this fart. It was one of the most atrocious things the others had ever smelled in their lives. While Roger and Rick fled in terror, I asked Nick for seconds.
syd barrett— Billboard, February 1967
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And which is more you'll be a Man, my son!
rudyard kipling— Stanza 4. (If— (1896))
Their gaze met for a few seconds. The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.
dan abnett— Dan Abnett (2000). First & Only. Games Workshop. ISBN 0671783750.
My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds — what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
andy goldsworthy— "Stone River Enters Stanford University's Outdoor Art Collection" (4 September 2001)
I have a phobia of anything that doesn't die in the microwave after five seconds.
— MuchMusic interview (1995)
It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.
elmore leonard— Jack Foley
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.)
Anatol Rapoport— Anatol Rapoport (1988), quoted in: William Poundstone (2011) Prisoner's Dilemma. p. 203
What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.
alex trebek— Justinson, C.H.L. Down and Dirty, pg 32
The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.
vernor vinge— Prologue (p. 4)
Human sense organs can receive only news of difference, and the differences must be coded into events in time (i.e., into changes) in order to be perceptible. Ordinary static differences that remain constant for more than a few seconds become perceptible, only by scanning. Similarly, very slow changes become perceptible only by a combination of scanning and bringing together observations from separated moments in the continuum of time.
Gregory Bateson— Mind and Nature, a necessary unity (1988, pg. 74-75)
On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it.
pat condell— YouTube video (January 19, 2008; from YouTube)
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
Andrea Dworkin— Modern Times Interview of Andrea Dworkin With Larry Josephson, on "Modern Times" (American Public Radio, 1992) (radio program) (transcript of tape (end of tape missing)), as accessed Sep. 5, 2010.
I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident […] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.
stephen jay gould— "Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity?" pp. 389–390
If I could have those sixty seconds within Bradypus ... would I not receive a plea for humans to pause, reassess - and above all, slow down?
stephen jay gould— "Can We Truly Know Sloth and Rapacity?" pp. 391
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
carl sagan— 57 min 0 sec
So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There’s so much left to know, and I’m on the road to find out.
cat stevens— On The Road To Find Out
It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …
linus torvalds— Torvalds, Linus (1995-11-14). Announcement for Linux 1.3.27. Retrieved on 2008-01-20.
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
linus torvalds— Torvalds, Linus (2013-06-23). Linus Torvalds - Google+. Retrieved on 2013-10-12.
If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.
Bruce Willis— Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. [3]
Hyenas are slow in their pace, and altogether inactive; I have often seen a few terriers keep them at bay, and bite them severely by the hind quarters; their jaws, however, are exceedingly strong, and a single bite, without holding on, more than a few seconds, is sufficient to kill a large dog. They stink horribly, make no earths of their own, but lie under rocks, or resort to the earths of wolves, as foxes do to those of badgers, and it is not uncommon to find wolves and hyenas in the same bed of earths.
— Johnson, Daniel (1827), Sketches of Indian field sports, London, R. Jennings
The division of the day into 24 hours, and of the hour into minutes and seconds on the scale of 60, is due to the Babylonians.
— p. 8 (The Babylonians)
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?
— in The red pyramid, p.502 (R)
One minute, thirty seconds to Cloud boundary.
— Who: Lieutenant Ilia
I wasn't looking for victory... just a few seconds... I give you all that I am, all that I was. Restore what has been corrupted
— Who: Sagacious Zu
— Note: The first quote is when he is mortally wounded by Death's Hand while fighting him to allow the player to escape from the Lotus Assassin fortress. Death's Hand stabs him, but not before damaging the support pillars, causing the underground chamber to collapse. The second quote is said when he helps free the player character from Sun Li's control over his or her mind.
Oh, fu- Who: Vampire Willow Rosenberg, returning to her own reality only to be killed within seconds.
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.
— Graham Lowe, former Wigan Warriors, Manly Sea Eagles, North Queensland Cowboys, Samoa and New Zealand coach.
