A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You cannot charge $1200 for a dress that looks like it was bought in a second hand store and makes most women… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have a vintage bohemian style of decor with a lot of candles, and second hand furniture and my crystals and my… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
“I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
And you must be Miss Granger. Yes, Draco's told me all about you. And your parents. Muggles, aren't they? Let me see.… — Lucius Malfoy Copy Share Image
More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV,… — Nitin Sawhney Copy Share Image
“Char bought a pack of clove cigarettes, claiming they tasted good, to which I ask why doesn't she just go suck on… — Julie Halpern Copy Share Image
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Revelation when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man. It is revelation to the first person only, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think the best research is people you meet and things that they say, rather than second hand accounts of something. I… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Most parents do not believe God, but to the success of their children, they are praying continues in heart.Despite all these kids… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke… — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element- direct observation.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Like some Hindu goddess, Aurora now has three arms, and her arms can be located in different rooms – or even cities.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown… — Josephine Herbst Copy Share Image
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Free yourself from all believes, all norms. See that you live completely with beliefs. Free yourself from second hand information. See in… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
