Second Hand Quotes

101 quotes by 84 authors

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob… — Walter Bagehot
... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough for me to… — Tal Farlow
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand, — Herta Muller
I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like… — Elwyn Brooks White
I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist… — Chris Isaak
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s… — Alejandro Amenabar
I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse,… — Jeffrey Bernard
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. — Leigh Hunt
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in. — Bjork
Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them… — Tom Bailey
The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - itâ€™s okay for clothes not that… — Karl Lagerfeld
Free yourself from all believes, all norms. See that you live completely with beliefs. Free yourself from second hand information. See in you clearly what… — Jean Klein
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. — Clay Shirky
A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop. — Virginia Woolf
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of… — Alberto Manguel
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when… — Isaac D'Israeli
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!â€”the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought… — Mark Twain
True friendship is self-love at second-hand. — William Hazlitt
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch… — Sophie Ellis Bextor

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