I think I’m just someone that just tries to get by. I’m kind of – if it was during the Second World War, I’d be a black marketeer, I think.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my...

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this...

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do – every 24 frames of a second.

I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then...

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

For me, I love California. I feel like it’s my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn’t have anywhere else.

I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn’t have come first, so second was my version of first.

If one book’s done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There’s that horror of the second novel that doesn’t match up.

When you’re on the road, there’s no time for second chances and messing yourself up.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

When you’re a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students’ use of the vocabulary they’re acquiring.

When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Every second is a forever in Wink. Every day is a cool afternoon waiting to happen. And every life is one lived quietly, with your feet up and your sun-dappled lawn before you as you...

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

Everywhere I go, I’m second to arrive. My reputation precedes me, and sometimes it skips out on the bill.

I defend Israel’s right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

I’m going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don’t fly. They’re the subs for the first ones....

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it’s the ‘easiest’ part of the pregnancy.

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.

When you’re younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do.

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

Reform is China’s second revolution.

I’m 5-foot-5, and I’ll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

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 and ’40s. I liked scary books.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

I think my first hit was probably ’24 is a Rubberband Man,’ which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts...

I’m a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there’s not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because...

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

Newman’s second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them; the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations, and this speed is about a kilometre per second.

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans,...

I’m an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.