"I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright."
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"Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly."
"If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point."
"I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire."
"Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time."
"I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?"
"Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count."
"Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute."
"E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later."
"You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next."
"If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars."
"What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one."
"madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged."
"I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more."
"You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person."
"How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another."
"Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day."
"Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding."
"At any minute, I am four minutes from a poncho."
"When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away."