Top 470 Minute Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Minute Quotes from famous people such as Maxine Waters, Burgess Owens, Halle Berry, Troian Bellisario, Ida Lupino, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoyin

I have been adopted by the millennials, and I’m enjoying every minute of it! I’m learning a new language.
Maxine Waters
I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you’re up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
Burgess Owens
I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them ‘little tombs’ and keep them in a storage space… I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
Halle Berry
The minute I’m off that stage, I try to get as ‘me’ as possible. I do that by piling on my black eyeliner, and I put on my ripped tights. Dressing like myself again helps.
Troian Bellisario
A woman in show business isn’t honest with herself… so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
Ida Lupino
The minute you’re working with the government, you’re dealing with bureaucracy, you’re dealing with time lags, you’re dealing with rigidity, you’re dealing with a slow pace.
Bob Simon
He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, ‘The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.’
Roy Horn
One minute you’re starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it’s career over. I was 20.
Richard Linklater
The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.
Dean Devlin
I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.
Adrienne Mayor
You always have to evolve – the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you’re going to lose.
Diplo
Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn’t need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn’t need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants – his personality is synonymous with success.
Toni Kroos
I have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations’ busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it.
Henrik Fisker
There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.
Ellen Ochoa
In the 123rd minute of the semifinal game at the Olympics against Canada, I scored the game-winning goal that brought us to the finals. You can’t replicate those do-or-die moments in practice or a friendly game.
Alex Morgan
I don’t know why, but rain comes into my head the minute I think of my childhood.
Dhanush
I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute – unless something drastic occurs.
Keith Jarrett
I tested the waters on producing a record, but I’m more of a creative guy. I can’t get into minute details.
Dee Snider
Wait a minute, I’m a fan of yours; you can’t be a fan of mine!
Adam Lambert
I describe our family as the Transformers. Separately, we can do our own thing, but the minute we start locking in, we become a force to be reckoned with. We become Optimus Prime.
Gok Wan
I enjoy fighting. It’s one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I’m just enjoying every minute of it.
Donald Cerrone
People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You’re laughing one minute and you’re crying the next and that’s just life for me, and that is what people are like.
Sally Hawkins
Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.
Toni Tennille
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations – mandatory ones – issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.
Russel Honore
I’ve met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too… I have an idea or two.
Ross Mathews
When a body moves, it’s the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.
Joan Rivers
‘Empire’ was already given its green light. I was like, ‘Alright, this makes perfect sense. They wouldn’t be going this hard on me if I didn’t have it.’ So it was last minute when I learned, you know, it’s a business decision. That was my fault.
Rotimi
Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I’m going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they’ll be able to walk away with something good from it.
Jayson Blair
I don’t think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn’t.
Allan Gurganus
When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never

When topics are complex and meaty, don’t create a never-ending email thread. It’s amazing how much time people waste composing and reading carefully-worded essays, when a 5 minute in-person chat would resolve the whole thing.
Justin Rosenstein
The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you’re on the road to becoming a bad one.
Rob Lowe
I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Susan B. Anthony
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
John C. Maxwell
We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
Buenaventura Durruti
I don’t make plans anymore. So I’m not living minute to minute.
John Mulaney
Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.
Mario Cuomo
Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It’s like playing ‘Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.’
Lisa Ann Walter
I loved every minute of my childhood – sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand… Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.
Jennifer Egan
The first time I was on ‘Johnny Carson,’ I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
Bonnie Hunt
I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.
Nicholas Haslam
The war correspondent has his stake – his life – in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
Robert Capa
Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn’t matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
Barry Silbert
I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don’t think we had the label yet. But there’s no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
Marlo Thomas
Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It’s a bleak but very beautiful place.
Ann Cleeves
Time needs another minute.
Sly Stone
My kids won’t eat all whole-wheat pasta, so my trick is to mix some in with white pasta. Cook the whole-wheat for about a minute and a half before you add the white pasta.
Christa Miller
There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that’s exactly where they belong. Connery’s one.
F. Murray Abraham
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
Kacey Musgraves
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I’ve done a good job.
Chelsea Handler
I’m terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
Maureen O’Hara
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it’s only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
Peter Mullan
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
Nancy Allen
It’s often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.
Marcus Samuelsson
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
Quentin Tarantino