If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.” — Mark Twain 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
I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand. — P. J. O'Rourke 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
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
“She yearned to be admired, and feared to be insulted; and yet seemed tragically conscious that she was destined to miss both… — Edith Wharton 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
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of… — Will Self 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'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
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
"The diary, "My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes… — Tom Riddle Copy Share Image
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…based on second hand knowledge and first-hand experience, a successful online marketing cocktail looks like this: Equal parts hard work, talent and… — Kristin Weber 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
“We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on… — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much… — David Lynch 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
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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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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