Minutes Quotes

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett

Reputation, Takes, Five

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Mother, Fool, Woman

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom, Fool, Five

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck

Hours, Prepare, Eighteen

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain

After, Sinner, Saved

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

Future, Everyone, Whatever

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare

End, Waves, Shore

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hero, Brave, Longer

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan

Tell, Forever, Five

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald Reagan

May, Else, Anyone

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle

Group, Hours, Loses

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho Marx

America, Read, Started

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller

Business, Anger, Down

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

Famous, Everyone

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen

Peace, War, Read

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
Billy Graham

Heart, Person, Give

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama

Wife, Fact, Fame

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
Jessica Savitch

Work, Hard, Two

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
Gary Lineker

Men, Simple, End

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann

Sunrise, Lost, Two

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
Jeff Foxworthy

Family, Feeling, Start

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Storm, Few, Silent

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
Anthony Hopkins

Lie, Down, Vodka

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor Swift

Friends, Before, After

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
Ellen DeGeneres

Peace, Beautiful, Human

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

Fool, Woman, Him

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov

Live, Doctor, Six

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
Andy Warhol

Famous, Bored, Everybody

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland

Fool, Woman, Him

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage

Boring, Two, After

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