Words matter. These are the best Blink Quotes from famous people such as Bruce Springsteen, Andy Hertzfeld, Craig Federighi, Jill Scott, Amy Morin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you’re making those connections with your audience then they’re going to go right along with it.
Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence… which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems – and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.
All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, ‘Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?’ But now I understand why they do. I get it now.
Although circumstances may change in the blink of an eye, people change at a slower pace. Even motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they’d originally anticipated.
When you blink, you’re on the back end of your career.
They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I’m going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.
With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can’t legislate that. It must be voluntary – especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.
I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I’m a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.
The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
It doesn’t seem that long ago to me that the word ‘irreverent’ seemed affixed to my name. ‘Irreverent newcomer.’ I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.
Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you’re an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.
If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we’re living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
I grew up on R-rated action films, and you didn’t blink.
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.
Time goes by so slowly when you’re a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.
I don’t even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that’s what it comes down to in speed skating.
Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because their own reproductive machinery is on the blink; (2) They want Earth’s resources; or (3) They want the Earth. All of it.
Age is so immaterial. Isn’t this all just the blink of an eyelash?
As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life’s journey gets in the way of acting. My kids can imagine a character and transform in the blink of an eye. It’s so simple for kids, so complex for adults.
When I think about it, 20 years really seems like a blink of an eye sometimes. I wish I would have made a more concerted effort to enjoy things along the way.
I listen to all kinds of music. The Calling, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, I mean, it’s everything.
Approach each day with the same mindset that your opportunity can come within a blink of an eye.
It feels really good to be doing Blink justice. Stepping on stage for the first show was pretty crazy. I’ve been skydiving several times, and that’s the closest thing I can compare it to. Such a beautiful rush.
If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it’s good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it’s all the same to us.
Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn’t have ever heard of us.
If you truly want to succeed, you have to stay humble – humble or crumble – because it can all go away in the blink of an eye.
Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race is transformed from something unimportant to the most important thing in the world.
Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters.
My parents have always been very supportive. But now that I play in Blink, all of my parents’ friends are so jazzed that it makes my folks excited.
We here a blink of an eye, even if we make it 75, 80 years, you still here a blink of an eye. Enjoy it.
I’m motivated every second by my work; it doesn’t switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
Today, we don’t blink an eye when the world’s wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.
Under any circumstances, if I had to return to Turkey and face the gallows, I will not blink an eye.
You could call me on the phone and say, ‘Someone blew up your entire house, Mike.’ If it’s not a person involved, I would sort of blink, whatever. That’s all replaceable, right?
I don’t think there was any point where I was like, ‘I want to be an actor for the rest of my life.’ The nice thing about being a kid is you don’t have to make those decisions. Then all of a sudden, you blink, and you’re 18.
Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.
I don’t ever blink, honestly.
There’s a Bible verse that says if you believe, you will be in the presence of the Lord in the blink of an eye. And I know Dale was a believer, and that means that he saw his son and his friend going to win the Daytona 500, and he was in heaven all within the blink of an eye.
I’m 32 now. I’m getting old. It’s gone in the blink of an eye. But I won’t even look back at the number of caps when I’m done: the most important thing will be remembering all the fun I’ve had with the guys in the dressing room and the friends I’ve made.
One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can’t blink. Which I think probably helps.
We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.
