Quotes About Timer

In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.

Julia has his pills on a timer, and every so often its bell goes off, startling us all, and Julia rushes to get the pills. God, illness is such an interference, and yet Richard's brain is as sharp as ever.

Grabbing a cookie sheet, she lined it with parchment, then arranged the bacon slices flat across the bottom and sprinkled them with brown sugar. After placing the pan in the oven, she programmed the temperature to four hundred, set the timer for seventeen minutes, and started on the pancakes.

I remember taking a timer into a pastry exam at college, and the examiner had never seen that before, but I was adamant about precision: getting it just right and paying attention to detail.

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

The No. 2 pencils had been handed out. The timer had been started. But we had not even registered that the test had begun.

She pushed the car. But I was so distracted that i forgot to push the button on the timer, so we had to do the whole thing again. Which Lindsey found hilarious. "Ok" she said. "Are you ready NOW, or do we have to send you back to Button Pushing one-oh-one?" "Um, what's Button Pushing One-oh-one?" I was wearing a button down shirt that day. Lindsey reached out and poked one of the buttons into my chest. "There, that's how you push a button. Any questions?

The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a "cooling-off period") (...).

In kindergarten, we'd tell stories with our toys. We'd set a timer for two hours because we knew that was how long a movie was.

The computer includes a timer which functions like a stopwatch on a smartphone. A timer is a variable that is set to a period of time, for example, 0.5 s, which is represented as an integer number milliseconds or microseconds (0.5 s is 500 ms). The hardware clock of the computer causes an interrupt at fixed intervals and the operating system decrements the value of the timer. When its value goes to zero, we say that the timer has expired; an interrupt occurs.

I set the self-portrait timer on the camera to ten seconds, handed it to the zombie, and sent him into the grid and through the door to blow himself up. Then things got weird.

I can't cook. I use a smoke alarm as a timer.

The operation didn't take place entirely smoothly. Soviet soldiers disguised as technicians placed the explosives successfully, but were forced to return because they'd forgotten to start the timer.)

The timer rang and I went to take two more sweet potato cakes out of the oven. There was a pot of sweet potatoes simmering on the stove. The kitchen was a warm and steamy place that smelled of cinnamon and nutmeg. A tropical rain forest of baking.

One way to get yourself started in spite of Resistance is to set a timer for ten minutes, and promise yourself that if you feel like stopping when the timer goes off, you can.

Most jobs can be done in less than 15 minutes. Just 15! If it's taking you longer than 15 minutes, you might be doing something wrong. So set your timer and you'll be amazed at how much progress you make before the bell goes off.