Quotes About Seconds

Send all fools from the earth to another planet, withing a few seconds all activities of this world will come to an end.

Breakaway goals are fun. When you score a quick one in front of the net, it just happens, but during a breakaway, there's about one or two seconds where you're not sure.

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Clement, shook his head in amusement. "I did that exactly forty seconds

God gave you a gift of 84, 600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important!

The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.

The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.

The addictive nature of Web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds—the same as a goldfish.

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

The speed of time is one second per second.

It was a kind of basso-profundo flutter in which each individual vibration could be heard. And the modulation was itself modulated; it rose and fell, rose and fell, with a period of about five seconds.

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.

each second that peeled itself off the clock and dropped onto that dirty bathroom floor.

the maximum number of syllables in the minimum number of seconds,

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

They stared at each other for several seconds. Finally, Mitch said, "Thanks for your high level of concern." "It doesn't quite live up to your high level of whining.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.