Top 1200 Ten Minutes Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.

When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

People get killed every ten or 20 minutes. When we die, we are just another statistic.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

I have such a simple process - it takes me, like, ten minutes to get ready.

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.

Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.

Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

I have makeup that I can do in 15 minutes, 10 minutes, or five minutes, depending on what I'm doing that day. On a day when I'm shooting, it's 15 minutes. Five minutes is when I'm running around that day, and it's no big deal.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on.

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

I'm the kind of guy who has your back. When you want to go off and solo for ten minutes, I keep that groove going. It's an important job.

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.

After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.

I use a Papaya Enzyme Peel by Elemis and leave it on for ten to 15 minutes. When I rinse it off, my skin feels silky and hydrated.

I want people to be passionate about their fitness. Everyone must take ten minutes of physical exercise daily at home or outside.

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

That's one of the things I loved about Pride: the first round was ten minutes.

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if I stopped everything else, spent months working just on chess, for a long match against most of the top players, a classical match, six hours, say, I don't stand a chance. I have a better chance in shorter matches. Rapid is 25 minutes, or blitz events where you have five minutes to make a move, or bullet games, where it is one minute. For blitz, five-minutes chess, I would be top ten, top five. But longer games, no chance.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

It doesn't matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.

In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

If I do take the time to do yoga, even just ten minutes in the morning or last thing at night before bed, I feel better.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.