Second Quotes

6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors

The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the… — Evelyn Waugh
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the… — George Steiner
There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man… — Gerald Stanley Lee
I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression… — John Kapelos
Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever.… — David First
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far… — Paul Davies
I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there's a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic.… — Kesha
I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a… — Kesha
When I was three, I fell and I got Bell's palsy in my face. My mom said the first day she called the rabbi, and… — Roseanne Barr
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. — Ron Fournier
Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much? — Ron Fournier
Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016. — Ron Fournier
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more… — Ron Fournier
Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like,… — Michael J. Fox
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument. — Jeff Foxworthy
I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a… — Pope Francis
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again. — Thomas Frank
The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator… — Al Franken
There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill… — Al Franken
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. — Viktor E. Frankl
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting… — Benjamin Franklin
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. — Robert Frost
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change. — Annette Funicello
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. — Annette Funicello

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