Second hand Quotes

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,

— Herta Muller

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

— Karl Kraus

What is love but a second-hand emotion?

— Tina Turner

Shopping second hand has always just made me feel good.

— Miquita Oliver

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

— John le Carre

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

— Marjane Satrapi

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?

— Steven Wright

“On the instant when we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand.”

— William Faulkner

“The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

— David Ogden Stiers

I got my first blockbuster break for the movie 'Cocktail,' where I sang 'Second Hand Jawani.'

— Neha Kakkar

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

— Brian Eno

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

— Samuel Butler

Oh, look at the time… The big hand says Fuck, and the little hand says Off… Good thing there's not a second…

— Hank Moody

“Time could barely pull the second hand forward on the clock...”

— Ann Patchett

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People…

— Chuck Palahniuk

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who…

— Mark Twain

“as the second hand continued to go around again and again; it would never stop, they would never stop coming, all the…

— Melanie Benjamin

“The clock’s second hand swept past the twelve. I unloaded a final flurry of elbow strikes and stepped back. The adrenaline dump…

— Barry Eisler

In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no…

— Nancy Pearcey

You treated me like I was second hand. Somehow I always caught the blame. You'll never guess what I've been catchin' now.…

— Miranda Lambert

True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors…

— William Hazlitt

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch,…

— John Lahr

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever…

— Travis Rice

“as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their…

— Booker T. Washington

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested…

— Henry David Thoreau

... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough…

— Tal Farlow

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance…

— Michael Pollan

Until the day I die I'll spill my heart for you, for you Until the day I die I'll spill my heart…

— She's_gone

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there…

— Neil Gaiman

“I argued myself into thinking that physical experience is the only true reality. I didn't want to be told about this, nor…

— Paul Theroux

“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no…

— Yoko Ogawa

“Gillian had bought the table and chairs and beds, the whole of the family furniture second-hand weekly down in the open air…

— Annette J Dunlea

As I lay here, trapped in the solitary confinement of my own mind, my thoughts are deafening. Earsplitting, although here I lay,…

— Alaxandra Kertesz

“The whole issue was almost unbelievably meaningless and small. He thought about the word “meaning” and tried to summon up his baby’s…

— David Foster Wallace

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The…

— Aldous Huxley