Three minutes’ thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

I’ve always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it’s great when you can do that – be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That’s basically what I’m doing. I’m running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.

My Favorite Songs Are My Favorite Songs Because They Just Feel Like A Certain Moment, Or A Certain Photo, Just A Snapshot For Whatever Three Or Four Minutes The Song Is

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

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air…but only for one second without hope.

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

Minutes later he was startled by a thudding sound. Then another and then another.

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

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

It is amazing how we sing and preach for 45 minutes and pray for two minutes.