#second

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#dogs #half #i #i think #left

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. ↗

— Len Deighton

#book #even #intention #politicians #professional

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ↗

— Euripides

#mortals #second #thoughts #wisest

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#actually #come #find #having #i

And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#breathing #breathing thing #changes #character #day

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#bed #below #could #dashed #door

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. ↗

— Lena Horne

#class #second #taught #way #you

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#first #happy #highest #him #made

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#conviction #gains #immensely #mind #minute

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play. ↗

— Eugene Ormandy

#center #how #i #just #last