My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.
Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.
Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.
Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.
When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
