#minutes

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. ↗

— George Combe

#admission #air #allowed #attention #brief

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#compressed #day #enough #every #every day

I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#every #every day #i #meditate #minutes

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#attention #hold #like #mature #minutes

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ↗

— Robert Frost

#another woman #boy #fool #her #him

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#cleavage #down #dress #drink #five

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#boom #com #few #find #genealogy

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. ↗

— Norman Lear

#commercials #end #get #i #interrupt

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#definitely #first #garbage #going #i

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#about #afternoon #banana #before #breakfast