Second Hand Quotes

101 quotes by 84 authors

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George. — Dennis Miller
Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? — George Carlin
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,… — Mervyn Peake
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
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
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand… — Ben Hecht
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem… — D. H. Lawrence
I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? — Hilary Mantel
The information I have about Iran is second hand. — Marjane Satrapi
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works… — Arthur Schopenhauer
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. — Will Self
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried. — David Ogden Stiers
In religion and politics peopleâ€™s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves… — Mark Twain
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he… — George Bernard Shaw
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain… — Graham Greene
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:… — Galway Kinnell
[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your… — Neil Gaiman
Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand? — Steven Wright
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… — Virginia Woolf

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