If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

- Joe Klein

If I was called back to 'Grand Budapest 2,' a prequel or whatever, I'm there. I'm there in a heartbeat.

- Tony Revolori

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

- Tim Tebow

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

- P. L. Travers

Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.

- Michael B. Jordan

I can gain 20 pounds in a heartbeat.

- Marissa Jaret Winokur

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

- Mandy Patinkin

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

- Lynn Abbey

I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.

- Lexa Doig

When I signed up for Y&R, my actor friends said, 'A daytime soap? It'll kill your career!' Now they'd trade places with me in a heartbeat.

- Jeanne Cooper

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

- Amy Winehouse

If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.

- Joe Lando

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

- Jason Alexander

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

- Jay Parini

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

- Joseph Campbell

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

- Henry J. Heinz

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

- Hope Davis

Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

- Banks

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

- Amanda Peet

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

- Abraham Verghese