#second

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#grade #greater #learn #most #second

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#book #first #five #housewife #husband

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#amy #because #catch #different #eventually

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#come #environment #extremely #focus #going

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#hire #people #second-rate

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#created #danger #did #efforts #half

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#love is #minutes #noises #seconds

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#about #afford #australia #australians #cannot

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#every second #finished #great #great pride #hate

My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#bruce #bruce springsteen #concert #dad #doing