Jason McCoy

I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche.

Canadian Musician

Charlie Rose

Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another.

American Journalist

Julia Glass

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.

American Novelist

Suzy Menkes

Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.

British Journalist

George Lois

Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.

American Artist

Kenneth Branagh

For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.

Irish Actor

Elizabeth Vargas

I would not hesitate for a nanosecond to step in front of a bullet, to do anything to give my life for my children.

Rufus Wainwright

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

Warren Christopher

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

American Statesman

Adina Porter

One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.

American Actress

Used in sciences to measure extremely quick events, where accuracy matters.

Technical Precision

Remember that in technical contexts, 'nanosecond' strictly means one billionth of a second.

Literal Sense

Though very short, it's not used to express duration in common human experiences.

Not for Duration

In casual speech, 'nanosecond' can exaggerate how briefly something happens.

Casual Exaggeration

It's informally used to stress quick recognition or decision-making.

Informal Emphasis

Avoid using 'nanosecond' informally in academic or formal texts.

Avoid in Formal Writing

 are now telling us there could be countless other universes built on different types of particles, with different properties, obeying different laws. Most of these universes could never support life, and might flash in and out of existence in a nanosecond.

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 you are at a critical juncture in your life here, my friend. You can keep sitting here with us. Any more of that sort of talk, you've got to go and sit over there with them." I thought about it for a nanosecond. I took one look at the road map of life,

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 Bulldog takes lifetime to build a reputation in the earn respect no one takes ten seconds to lose that nanosecond you can be home just like that

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