#second

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street. ↗

— Howard Finster

#here #i #i came #light #like

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#poetry #question #second #taught #think

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival. ↗

— Milos Forman

#cannes #collapsed #day #days #ended

The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#asset #based #economic #economic growth #experience

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#armies #demented #fight #first #generally

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#becomes #families #granted #important #important things

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ↗

— Bill Gates

#any #applied #automation #business #efficiency

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#brazil #nation #second #world

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#box #candles #catholic #catholic church #church

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry. ↗

— Martin Landau

#comedians #cry #good #later #laugh