Seconds Quotes

Thomas Fuller, known as the Virginia Calculator, was stolen from his native Africa at the age of fourteen and sold to a planter. When he was about seventy years old, 'two gentlemen, natives of Pennsylvania, viz., William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates, men of probity and respectable characters, having heard, in traveling through the neighborhood in which the slave lived, of his extraordinary powers in arithmetic, sent for him and had their curiosity sufficiently gratified by the answers which he gave to the following questions: First, Upon being asked how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in about two minutes, 47,304,000. Second: On being asked how many seconds a man has lived who is 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours old, he answered in a minute and a half 2,210,500,800. One of the gentlemen who employed himself with his pen in making these calculations told him he was wrong, and the sum was not so great as he had said—upon which the old man hastily replied: stop, master, you forget the leap year. On adding the amount of the seconds of the leap years the amount of the whole in both their sums agreed exactly.

Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.

Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.

I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

Time needs another minute.

We Jamaicans are not so much stressed about time, you know, but you have to stay on top of it. And, of course, on the track, every time we go on the track, it is all about the seconds and the fractions of a second that count.

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

My boyfriend is Jewish, and he calls himself a kike every five seconds.

His gift is slower than Jane's. It creeps. It will touch us in a few seconds.

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.

The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.

You have to take care of the seconds. The minutes, the hours, and the days will take care of themselves.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.

Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.

That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.