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
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
“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
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
If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't… — David Mitchell 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
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
“Want to buy some illusions, Slightly used, second hand? They were lovely illusions, Reaching high, built on sand. They had a touch… — Frederick Hollander lyric Copy Share Image
The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody… — Lizzy Plapinger 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
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
“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
“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe… — Rachel Hall 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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