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.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War – thousands of them in Auschwitz – we’re again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That’s what I’m trying to tell kids.

‘No’ is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn’t even take a second look at them.

I’m motivated every second by my work; it doesn’t switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I don’t take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

No one remembers who came in second.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

If you come on my property, I’ve got you from the second that you enter on. There’s little lasers… my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there’s no...

I love every second of being a mom.

It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out...

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the – in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home – my second home, really.

I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second.

I look at Canada like a second home.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed,...

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

When I wrote ‘Mushaboom’, I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?