Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
L.A. can be intense, but the second you get over the hill into Calabasas, your stress level immediately drops because it's so peaceful and safe. Sometimes I really miss it.
Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.
An hour crept by. I think it was an hour. I hardly recognized it. Bearing no resemblance to any of the numerous other hours of my acquaintance, I hardly recognized a single second of it.
I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.
I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
