#seconds

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#goal #happen #how #i #kind

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

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#five #remember #seconds #thank #then

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#each #few #hundredths #luck #only

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over. ↗

— Drew Brees

#change #diaper #flap #flat #i

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition! ↗

— Gene Cernan

#anchors #background #could #five #four

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. ↗

— Liz Phair

#back #doing #everything #five #hurt

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62. ↗

— David Coleman

#lap #last #run #seconds #time

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#just #lifetime #seconds #ten #training

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.' ↗

— Peter King

#because #dump #funeral #george #go