5 Minutes Quotes

1. "Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes."
Author: Aaron Copland

2. "If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions."
Author: Albert Einstein

3. "It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats."
Author: Alex Van Halen

4. "I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."
Author: Alison Lohman

5. "I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes."
Author: Amaury Nolasco

6. "I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He's always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills."
Author: Ana Ortiz

7. "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
Author: Andy Warhol

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

9. "He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes, He who never asks is a fool forever."
Author: Anonymous

10. "15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall."
Author: Betty Hill

11. "Remember how I woke you up? If you could have seen me during the 15 minutes before your wake-up call, you would have seen a man watching a woman sleep. You would have seen the tenderness in his eyes. You would have seen a smile on his lips. And if you had looked super-super hard, you just might have seen the love growing in his heart."
Author: Bill Shapiro

12. "Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes."
Author: Bradley Whitford

13. "Even if I have only 15 minutes, I knock out some toning moves or get in a burst of cardio."
Author: Brooke D'Orsay

14. "I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes."
Author: Charlyne Yi

15. "If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out."
Author: Criss Jami

16. "It was rumored that the length of the CD was determined by the duration of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, because that was Norio Ohga's favorite piece of music, and he was the president of Sony at the time. Philips had designed a CD with an 11.5 cm diameter, but Ohga insisted that a disc must be able to hold the entire Beethoven recording. The longest recording of the symphony in Polygram's archive was 74 minutes, so the CD size was increased to 12 cm diameter to accommodate the extra data."
Author: David Byrne

17. "During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I had been on a trip. I almost never get this feeling any other way. I once spent sixteen hours making 150 wedding invitations by hand and was not for one instance of that time tempted to eat or look at my watch. By contrast, if seated at the computer, I check my email conservatively 30,000 times a day. When I am writing, I must have a snack, call a friend, or abuse myself every ten minutes. I used to think that this was nothing more than the difference between those things we do for love and those we do for money. But that can't be the whole story. I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be able to do so, writing was always difficult. Writing is like pulling teeth. From my dick."
Author: David Rakoff

18. "Take 5" is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent."
Author: Don Maruska

19. "On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio."
Author: Dweezil Zappa

20. "I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer."
Author: Ed Begley Jr.

21. "Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind."
Author: Eric Heiden

22. "Stridey-Man: " Want 2 vaca w/me?"William: "Romantic getaway for 2? UR not my type"Stridey-Man: "I'm everyone's type. So U in or out? 'Cause I'm thinking about hooking up w/P, wherever he is. U'd just B extra baggage."William: "In"Stridey: "Knew you couldn't resist me. B ready in 5."William: "Right on. Make it 10. I want 2 style my hair for U. U know, just how U like it."Stridey: "Now U only have 8 minutes 2 do UR hair."
Author: Gena Showalter

23. "You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested."
Author: Howie Carr

24. "I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower."
Author: Hugh Laurie

25. "I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future."
Author: Jackie Mason

26. "I can buy baseball cards to view an entire career on the back of a little square of cardboard. But nobody sells major league father cards with key statistics on the back ("Had a great season in 2005: set career highs in unforced expressions of affection and averaged 87 minutes of quality time per day.")"
Author: John Ortberg Jr.

27. "The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so."
Author: John Scarlett

28. "I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level."
Author: Karen Kingsbury

29. "I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure."
Author: Karen Mills

30. "What is 45 minutes to an old goat like you?" - Vanda"I believe it is still 45 minutes." - Connor"
Author: Kerrelyn Sparks

31. "I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'"
Author: Kirsten Vangsness

32. "Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord."
Author: Louise Rennison

33. "……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there."
Author: Margaret Edson

34. "We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes."
Author: Mark V. Hurd

35. "On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican."
Author: Mary Doria Russell

36. "THE RELIABLE WAY OUT OF OBESITY IS VIA PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. This point has been lost on the hundreds of folks who have railed against my arguments for food addiction in periodicals, so I"m eager to make it here: No one but me put the food in my mouth. Even if I had grown up imprisoned in a crawl space under the basement stairs (I wasn't), even if tragedy has befallen me every 15 minutes since (it hasn't), I"m still responsible for what I eat. If my food is out of control (it was), then I'm responsible for finding, requesting, and accepting the help I need."
Author: Michael Prager

37. "I realistically eat every hour and 15 minutes. I watch the clock to see when I eat again. I'm almost upset that I'm not eating now."
Author: Michael Todd

38. "Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away."
Author: Monica Raymund

39. "Nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is concerned, while you're in office, you'll still be the worst single president they've ever had until you stop. Then it's some other poor bastard's turn. And even that doesn't matter, because ten, twenty years later, they'll look back on you, and wonder why they didn't appreciate you when they had you...You don't get to make a difference. You don't get to do jack shit. You know what you get?...You get an entry in the history book, and every 15 minutes, every day at Disneyworld, an animatronic puppet wearing your face will wave or nod when the spotlight hits it."
Author: Neil Gaiman

40. "I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter."
Author: Pablo Schreiber

41. "I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home."
Author: Pierre Dukan

42. "That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!"
Author: Randy West

43. "When you've had one call after another and your little one is tugging on your shirt, remember what really matters. When the milk is splattered all over the floor and those little eyes are looking at you for your reaction, remember what really matters. It takes 5 minutes to clean up spilled milk; it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit."
Author: Rebecca Eanes

44. "You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes."
Author: Robert Goulet

45. "Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer."
Author: Ronald Reagan

46. "Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes.Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface.Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here.Place unopened pouch inside you shirt, allow you body temperature to warm your MRE.I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it."
Author: S.A. Bodeen

47. "€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff."
Author: Slavoj Žižek

48. "I really need 5 hours of Facebook to balance out my 5 minutes of studying."
Author: Thabang Gideon Magaola

49. "In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga."
Author: Vivienne Westwood

50. "It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym."
Author: Warren Cuccurullo

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