You see, the patience of an audience is very short, particularly with a non-entity. You’re an intruder, and you must make them laugh within three or four seconds. My poems fit the requirements, and I’m always thinking up new ones.
One never knows how a bout is going to pan out and even in last 2-3 seconds things can change.
You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I’m lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds.
‘Crocodile Dundee’ is about people; it’s 10 seconds about crocodiles.
You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race – when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it’s all over the world in seconds.
People are obviously capable of handling the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. But I don’t know how many people have had to experience them within seconds of each other.
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it’s OutKast. There’s a strangeness about it because it’s catchy, but it’s not just pop for the sake of pop. They’re pushing the envelope.
The first film where I had a speaking role was ‘The Low Life,’ but I did appear for about three seconds in ‘Straight Talk’ with Dolly Parton and James Woods. I had a line, and it was cut. It was alright: I got my AEU card anyway.
If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can’t have that device without everything that goes with it.
You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don’t think, ‘Ooh, I bet they’re angry.’ No one really does anger these days. I suppose it’s a turn-off.
I do occasionally listen to One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer.
There was a danger when I was in So Solid and we made ’21 Seconds.’ But we’re just showing a slice of life.
Statistically, the chance of creating a goal is higher within 10 seconds of winning the ball.
I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification – buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later – really is a revolutionary act.
‘Seconds’ is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there’s that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.
I don’t think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don’t sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant.
With the 24-second clock, they throw up the shot so fast you don’t see plays worked very often. With the extra six seconds, you can regroup after a missed shot and work another play. It would put more coaching in the game.
Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we’re locked into playing defense for that long… it’s hard to run on offense after you’ve been hunkering down on D for that long.
Who cares how many miles per hour the ball traveled once it left the bat, or how high the ball traveled in degrees, or how many seconds it took to leave the ballpark?
Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don’t get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet, and within 15 seconds, I was printing out a certificate which allowed me to officiate at their wedding.
Sometimes, you go out there and get knocked out in the first seven seconds. That might be one out of 10 times, but that is why we fight.
Every time four protons are turned into a helium nucleus, two neutrinos are produced. These neutrinos take only two seconds to reach the surface of the Sun and another eight minutes or so to reach the Earth. Thus, neutrinos tell us what happened in the center of the Sun eight minutes ago.
I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
I feel like, if you have a big platform, please use it for great… just like me, just like a bunch of people are. It takes two seconds. It’s not gonna mess up your Instagram feed, you can do it.
You get on the tube and you notice everyone’s looking at you, and you’re like, ‘What’s on my face?’ It always takes me a couple of seconds to remember I’m on a Netflix show that airs to the entire world.
The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. ‘Anchors aweigh!’ Five, four, three, two, one… and we had ignition!
Doctors have limited time to listen to your story, but you must make sure they understand why you’re there. Don’t just say that you have chest pain – explain when it started, what you were doing, and how it felt. Write down key elements. Practice until you can tell it in 30 seconds or less.
I don’t have one specific dream role: I’m an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they’ll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you’re great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you’re really just like that character.
Vine is great because none of us have time to really see all the talent that’s out there. If you can make someone laugh in six seconds, you can see there’s more to this person. Vine lends itself to that. It allows you to be exposed to new people and you get it right away.
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
I saw Cruyff at 36 and the way he played was interesting because he was so quick to understand situations. Football can still be very nice at that age because even though you are not as strong or as quick, you can still see things that others see two seconds later.
It’s funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that’s really funny, and I’ll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it’s three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
You know within three seconds if you’re going to have a history with someone – it’s a long half-hour if you’ve got it wrong.
Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you’re the same as you were before you had it.
I did have a problem concentrating on anything for more than 10 seconds. I was one of the first kids in the U.K. to go on Ritalin, and my mum hated it, and I hated it.
I never dreamed I’d be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.
The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
I’m trying to provide entertainment, and I hope that people can realize that it takes more than just me playing a shot in 30 seconds or 40 seconds for us to call it slow play.
In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven’t tidied up. That would be really helpful.
Sometimes I’m kind of cranky coming to see something. I saw the Mona Lisa when it was in L.A., saw it for 13 seconds and had to move on.
With stand-up, it doesn’t matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it’s your job to make them laugh.
Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.
I’m not the guy who’s been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.
Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that’s why it’s not funny… There’s no time for anything to develop.
If I texted somebody that I was having a down day, in seconds I would have somebody either call me or show up at my door.
Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.
I generally feel like you should only ever sing a capella for like maximum 30 seconds.
You can tell in six seconds if someone is funny.
Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they’ve made, there’s never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone’s qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?
I haven’t experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up the sky in a flash of red for a few seconds. That was really cool.
