A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
Jack Dempsey

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
Robert Doisneau

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.
Rob Schneider

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.
Dom DeLuise

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Sam Shepard

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
Anne Dudley

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Pappy Boyington

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!
David Friedman

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
Wentworth Miller

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
William Arthur Ward

Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done.
Len Dawson

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
James Hogg

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.
David Coleman

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
Don Adams

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.
Klaus Kinski

I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.
Tom Selleck