#seconds

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

The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie. ↗

— Brian Roberts

#day #download #movie #seconds #you

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years. ↗

— Allen Klein

#humor #seconds #see #some #sometimes

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

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

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. ↗

— Alan Tudyk

#down #film #heady #into #reading

In moments such as these, it’s the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life. ↗

— Rebecca A. Rogers

#moments #seconds #inspirational

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him. ↗

— John Prescott

#automatically #blood #could #decided #down

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#could #countries #find #good #good manners