Second Quotes

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.