The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.
The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.
This is a thing I read by a scientist. . . it said scientists now say that a man thinks about sex once every 7. 3 seconds. Now, I know what I think every 7. 3 seconds. It's just a bunch of meaningless gibberish.
We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Those seconds are critical.
She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able to walk?" Zeke is quiet for a few seconds. His eyes shift over my face, and he squints, as if weighing and measuring me. Then he turns and bends and wraps his arms around me. it's been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen. Then I relax, and let the gesture force warmth over my body.
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go here. So all you have to do is look at it, give it a few seconds, and your eye will start to move through the painting.
I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.
Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.
Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.
What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?
