Dreizen Last Minute Quotes

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute. ~ Johnny Vegas

When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute. ~ Charisma Carpenter

Last Minute:
I have to buy all my presents at the last minute, she said, or I get too excited & just give them away. ~ Brian Andreas

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single. ~ Meg White

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. ~ Rachilde

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days. ~ Ayumi Hamasaki

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting. ~ Berenice Abbott

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute. ~ Terry Pratchett

The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat. ~ Paul Ince

Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas. ~ Albert Brooks

It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening. ~ Elizabeth Meriwether

You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind. ~ Alex Ferguson

Deadlines comes as a surprise ... superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping. ~ Alberto Manguel

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters. ~ Willard Spiegelman

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen. ~ Mitch Hedberg

She already knew that he'd decided to leave - knew before he opened his mouth to speak. But for one last minute, she could pretend that he was hers to keep. For one last minute, she held him, and let him hold her. ~ Rob Thomas

I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute. ~ Jonathan Meades

It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured. ~ Rachel Vincent

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. ~ Seamus Heaney

Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn't remarkable, it's invisible. ~ Seth

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? ~ Chris Abani

Stop your worrying, panicking and stressing. Breathe. Remember, you made it this far through difficulties that seemed impossible. Remember how many times you were saved at the very last minute
this time is no different. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Shaun's eyes widened, and for a minute, he was speechless. It was a nice minute. When his mouth wasn't messing things up, he was serious eye candy. Unfortunately, it didn't last long. ~ Jus Accardo

For so uncaring is life constructed that a minute before a happy man kills a child he is still happy and a minute before a woman screams with fear she can close her eyes and dream of the sea and the last minute of a child's life this child's parents can sit in the kitchen and wait for sugar and speak of their child's white teeth and about a rowing boat and the child itself can close a gate and start walking across a road with a few lumps of sugar wrapped in white paper in its right hand and this entire last minute nothing see except a long, shiny river and a broad boat with silent oars. ~ Stig Dagerman

Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped. ~ Asne Seierstad

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas. ~ Giada De Laurentiis

I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me. ~ Waris Ahluwalia

Doing things at the last minute reminds us of the importance of doing things at the first minute. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook. ~ Alice Waters

The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st ~ Carl Sagan

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve. ~ Joel Edgerton

Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age. ~ Winona Ryder

In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do. ~ Russel Honore

I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be. ~ Audrey Tautou

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. ~ Noam Chomsky

I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building ... I changed my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over and landed on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what happened and one turns to the other and says, "See, that's how it's done." ~ Steven Wright

Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy. ~ Maurice Sendak

Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever. ~ Eric Thomas

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament. ~ David Lange

I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be. ~ Zooey Deschanel

You should make your life count right up to the last minute. ~ Louis Zamperini

Live every minute as if you are late for the last train. ~ Colson Whitehead

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things. ~ Stevie Wonder

Why don't I know You?" "Does anyone ever really know someone else?" "You think your cute," she told him. "You think your gorgeous. But I'm the one guy here who knows better." "So I'm not gorgeous?" Macey challenged. "Of course you are," He started away, turned back at the last minute. "But I'm the guy who figured out that's not all you are." - Double Crossed by Ally Carter ~ Ally Carter

One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up! ~ Andrea Phillips

I get cast at the last minute. I don't know, maybe somebody drops out and they can't get someone, and someone is like, 'Oh, how about Katia Winter?' ~ Katia Winter

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night. ~ David Sedaris

The more you remember, the more you are able to experience, the more you know, so to speak. And the more you know, the more you remember. It is a circle ... But remember, none of it has been exactly a drudge. I mean, you've loved all of it! Every last minute! Oh, it's delicious, this thing called life! It's a scrumptious experience, no? ~ Neale Donald Walsch

When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!' ~ Thierry Henry

Any last minute advice?" She raised a brow. "Try not to fall in love with anyone, ~ Karina Halle

I couldn't go over there, man. Once I saw the blood. I'm not good with blood.. It choked me up for a minute. We were laughing and giggling one minute, the next minute, a man's down on the ground, both of them. ~ Cliff Floyd

It was as though in these last minutes together
when they had so much to say
they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates. ~ Clive Barker

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game. ~ Michael Strahan

I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! ~ Bryan Lee O'Malley

If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing? ~ Lena Dunham

Things don't last forever, so I shouldn't waste a single minute. ~ Lauren Morrill

Two weeks of false starts, of too much cloud cover, of strong wind, of last minute mechanical doubts. ~ Exurb1a

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. ~ Rita Mae Brown

If there are three words in the English language worse than "Got a minute?" they can only be "About last night ... ~ Meg Cabot

I'm fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have. ~ Dan Webster

You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet. ~ Hamilton Jordan

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. ~ Sam Ewing

Live every minute as if it's your last, so when you're my age, you have no regrets. ~ Bella Andre

Procrastinators may resemble Sprinters, because they too tend to finish only when they're against a deadline, but the two types are quite different. Sprinters choose to work at the last minute because the pressure of a deadline clarifies their thoughts; Procrastinators hate last-minute pressure and wish they could force themselves to work before the deadline looms. Unlike Sprinters, Procrastinators often agonize about the work they're not doing, which makes it hard for them to do anything fun or meaningful with their time. They may rush around doing busywork as a way to avoid doing what they know they have to do. ~ Gretchen Rubin

Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life. ~ Wallace Stegner

Though I remember, sharply, last things. The last book she read. The last play (and film, and concert, and opera, and art exhibition) that we went to together. The last wine she drank, the last clothes she bought. The last weekend away. The last bed we slept in that wasn't ours. The last this, the last that. The last piece of my writing that made her laugh. The last words she wrote herself; the last time she signed her name. The last piece of music I played her when she came home. Her last complete sentence. Her last spoken word. ~ Julian Barnes

He put our hands to the table, gave me his beautiful eyes, and whispered back, Minute by minute, baby. ~ Kristen Ashley

The position was offered at the last minute, when the scheduled professor found a better-paying job delivering pizza. ~ David Sedaris

One of the reasons AA works is that the individual makes the decision not to drink, one day at a time. One hour. One minute even. You can do that, right? One minute? ... There's one minute. You're stronger than you know, Mrs. Alexander. ~ Tammara Webber

It only takes one minute of bravery. One minute of insane, embarrassingly crazy courage to change your life. Sometimes, it only takes that one minute for something great to happen. ~ Max Monroe

For me, when I did 'Thor,' they changed my lines at the last minute, and then I had to speak with an English accent - and it was horrifying. I was in front of a crew of 250 people on my first day - never happened to me before. ~ Rene Russo

Live life like it's your last day. Make every minute count. For tomorrow is not promised. Live in the moment. ~ Alisha Broughton

Obviously I was missing the whole picture. Any minute now he would leap up, wrench the two-inch silver alloy bars apart despite the fact that silver was toxic to shapeshifters, and heroically kick Saiman's ass. Any minute now. Any minute. ~ Ilona Andrews

I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every minute of it. ~ Cub Swanson

With each passing minute, I expected her to walk away, and every minute she stayed in my arms felt like a miracle. ~ Jamie McGuire

That's the day i decided to live every minute of every day like it might be my last. ~ M. Leighton

If you want to die as soon as last year, get married this very minute! ~ Levi Cheruo Cheptora

What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them. ~ Paul W. S. Anderson

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life. ~ Janis Joplin

Nothing can be left until the last minute, so that everyone knows exactly where they are. Everyone is comfortable and everyone feels safe because we want people to be able to keep coming into this show and taking those risks. There are a lot of risks in this show, not just nudity, but emotional risks. We want the best actors to feel comfortable about coming in and exploring this subject matter with us. ~ Michael Sheen

I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally. ~ Lew Wasserman

Beginnings are always like this. One minute everything exists, the next minute everything is lost. ~ Haruki Murakami

Arthur sighed and barely managed to whisper, Key ... hold the Hour Hand for ... a minute ... a minute ... ~ Garth Nix

For a minute, we're just two people wondering why things are the way they are. ~ Kathryn Stockett

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day. ~ John Green

Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level. ~ Honor Harger

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful. ~ Cat Deeley

We can still try! There's no reason to expect a perfect last-minute solution from anyone else. We have to try. ~ Anonymous

I think about my work every minute of the day. ~ Jeff Koons

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ~ Salvador Dali

It's curious that children can either be expert liars or utterly incapable of hiding their emotions, and the classification changes from minute to minute. ~ Drew Hayes

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever? ~ Jodi Picoult

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute. ~ James Hunter

He watched Warrick walk away across the café, and started sentences in his mind. Don't go yet. I want five minutes, that's all. One minute. I want you. This could be the last time I see you. This really could be the last time. I want you to - ~ Manna Francis

I can't do anything in a minute. ~ Lizzie Andrew Borden

This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another
Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion
I thought of you, before this minute upon another minute upon another
Until, numb, my lips fell onto the mouth of another, and I was undone.

~from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter which is a fictional book in
Ballad: A gathering of faerie ~ Maggie Stiefvater

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish. ~ Aerin Lauder