Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. A. E. Housman
This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke. Mordecai Richler
The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition. Peter Greenaway
No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles]. Terry Pratchett
When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on. Tupac Shakur
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes. Harlan Howard