To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some… — Evangeline Lilly 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura 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
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of… — Michael Polanyi 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
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
“...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...” — S. Clifford Copy Share Image
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I got my first blockbuster break for the movie 'Cocktail,' where I sang 'Second Hand Jawani.' — Neha Kakkar Copy Share Image
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“I have seen the deadly effects of love first hand, and I have seen them with my second hand (the left one).” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I… — Heather Rose Copy Share Image
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Where is all that time you promised? The first hand's on the three, where's the second hand, I'm bothered. To see it… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until… — Paulo Costanzo Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
