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Quotes About Minutes

Pike hung up and immediately walked the girl back to his Jeep. He felt the passing minutes like a race he was losing. Once you engaged the enemy, speed was everything. Speed was life.
~ Robert Crais
But that was life on Mars. They could be dead within minutes of any number of untoward events, as always.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Excellent. We keep your furniture. Whose bed?" "Yours." "Why mine?" "It's bigger, for one." "And for another?" "Mine doesn't have the sort of headboard you can tie someone to. I've always sort of wanted to do that." "Bend over. Now. Take off your pants and bend over. I'll be done in five minutes. No one will ever know.
~ Amy Lane
The other man leaned back his head and breathed carefully for a few minutes. John waited in respect. You had to respect pain, because pain didn't respect shit.
~ Amy Lane
You have not just weekly ratings, but minutes where they say during a show, 'This guy's boring, get him off.' This has produced a thing in our society where we have no shame and the worst offense is to be boring.
~ Terry Funk
I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
~ Jo Brand
My Premier League debut was against Watford in 2015. I got a few minutes or so. It was truly heart-warming. So nice, being young and then scoring goals.
~ Kelechi Iheanacho
I just feel like being on the floor for more minutes allows me to give my presence.
~ Zaza Pachulia
Walnuts are so rich. I also love that you can chew them for five minutes. Then I eat a couple of golden raisins as a palate cleanser because they are really tart, and then more walnuts. It's a great snack for me.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
~ L.M. Montgomery
White teas required only one to two minutes, and black teas between two and three minutes, while herbal teas could steep for three to six minutes.
~ Laura Childs
I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn't going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
~ Alan Moore
How much time do I have left?" I glance over at my clock. "Seven minutes." Maybe I should tack on an extra five… "Can we lie down, then?" he suggests. I shove him in the shoulder. "Peter!" "I just want to hold you for a little bit! If I was going to try to do more, I'd need more than seven minutes, trust me.
~ Jenny Han
Fate had struck while she sat unsuspecting, had struck somewhere on one of the many curves of this cursed course. The seconds became leaden, the minutes hours. The carrousel on the white ribbon existed now only like a bad dream; her chest became a black cavity, hollowed out with waiting.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Ultimately the specialists that I've seen and spoken to, if you do get a whack on the head and there's a small sort of concussion, and then you go and get another whack on the head within minutes, then that's when the damage can be done. And I think that's where we can potentially protect the players a lot more.
~ Ryan Mason
For goalkeepers, confidence comes from games and minutes. So whenever someone gives you an opportunity or shows faith in you, it always gives you a boost.
~ Iker Casillas
I feel as long as I'm playing productive minutes, I'll play. But if I'm sitting on the bench and not doing anything, then I'll retire.
~ Toni Kukoc
When did you last see him?" "About twenty minutes ago," I said. "In the morgue." Finlay nodded gently. "Before that?" "Seven years ago," I said. "Our mother's funeral.
~ Lee Child
Reacher said, 'Do you have an accurate headcount?' McQueen said, 'Twenty-four tonight, not including me.' 'Six left, then.' 'Is that all? Jesus.' 'I've been here at least twenty minutes.
~ Lee Child
Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I always smile when I think of him, and when I see his doppelgängers I rubberneck to get a look. Then allow myself to dissolve into a serene, secret little smile as that feeling takes over. Is it possible to fall in love with someone you've only met for five minutes?
~ Dorothy Koomson
Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
~ Alan Moore, Watchmen