Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 3939 authors

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second. — Lee Iacocca
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was… — Shelby Foote
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time… — Martin Amis
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This… — Josiah Royce
Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience. — Shelley Berman
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. — Gabriela Mistral
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a… — Louis Sullivan
All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing… — Jack Newfield
I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand… — Naguib Mahfouz
A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one… — Israel Shenker
Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills… — Diego Luna
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station. — Elinor Lipman
I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second. — Kristin Lehman
Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed… — Melanie Laurent
Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to… — Mark Millar
I don't think for a second that I'm the best at anything, but I know I'm really good at quite a lot of things because… — Martine McCutcheon
New York is my, you know, second hometown. — Masaharu Morimoto
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. — Norman MacCaig
Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. — Dave Navarro
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo,… — Georg Cantor

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