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People coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith. — Margaret Halsey

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. — Tom Wolfe

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. — Ray Fitzgerald

I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality. — D. M. Turner

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes. — Greg Lake

Measuring time isn't as simple as adding or subtracting minutes from a clock...You must find your own measuring stick. — Lindsay Eagar

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself. — Barbara Myerhoff

As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station, — Alice Steinbach

Darwin, as twelve minutes was the — Thea Hayes

One by one, the minutes poured in - and even a trickle, as we have come to understand, can eventually add up to a flood. — Karen Thompson Walker

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families. — Tim Allen

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second. — Anjelica Huston

Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age. — Gerry Lindgren

You're a grown-up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person. — Kelly Williams Brown

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.] — Carl Jung

The minutes dragged by as they only did when you had no choice but to wait for something. — Charles De Lint

Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life. — Paulo Coelho

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes. — Edward Everett

Six minutes isn't sex," I hear him
saying as my eyes crash shut. "Six
minutes is a boiled egg. — Sophie Kinsella

If you seek to have the minutes pass faster, then what you seek is death, unintending as you may be. Minutes are all we have. They were — Robert J. Crane

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. — William Shakespeare

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat) — Jeaniene Frost

I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control. — Karlie Kloss

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time. — Mark Duplass

And then, after a period that seemed both as swift as mere minutes and as endless as days, it was done. — Jaida Jones

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976. — Janice Dickinson

Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men. — Katie Couric

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long. — Stephen Sondheim

The Moon would shine as brightly as the midmorning sun, and by the end of the two minutes, the lunar regolith would be heated to a glow. — Randall Munroe

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl. — Erich Von Stroheim

After several minutes [Wart] said, "Is one allowed to speak as a human being, or does the thing about being seen and not heard have to apply? — T.H. White

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day. — Rudyard Kipling

I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes. — Patrick Kane

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show. — Zach Galligan

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter. — Nick Offerman

I never thought of myself as a rock singer. I was interested in songs like 'Heart Like a Wheel,' and I liked the others for about 15 minutes. — Linda Ronstadt

Did she look different? She felt different, as if she had traveled a thousand miles and a hundred lifetimes in a few short minutes. — Jennifer Beckstrand

Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively — Sunday Adelaja

There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered. — Garth Risk Hallberg

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes. — Chris Hadfield

Ten minutes later everyone was gone, giving out hugs, air kisses and well wishes for a successful cherry popping as they went. — Kristen Ashley

The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work. — Gilbert Highet

We are hours and minutes reaching for the same second, holding hands as we spin forward into new days and the promise of something better. — Tahereh Mafi

Noreen didn't speak, and as the minutes passed she seemed to fade into the rummaging breeze and chatter of insects, as if the night itself were alive. — Jennifer Egan

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke. — John Waters

Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so. — Alexander McCall Smith

The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as
long as all the time before — Vernor Vinge

I woke up at four thirty the next morning - also known as five minutes past ungodly - and — Darynda Jones

I ca'n't remember things as I used- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together! — Lewis Carroll

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me
almost as if I were going to think! — Aleister Crowley

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting. — Johnny Vegas

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. — Yves Klein

Time passes so slowly in a waiting room, as if all the wasted minutes of your life have been recycled and you are forced to endure them over again. — Barbara Ellen Brink

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions. — Virginia Postrel

I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day. — Kim Cattrall

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago' ... — Terence McKenna

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war. — William Odom

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute. — John Lyly

So I guess you are going to be over in a few minutes," she said more as a statement than a question. — Quinn Loftis

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result. — Ira Glass

I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half. — Claire Danes

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. — Jimmy Carr