#second

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#billy graham #carolina #conservative #down #down the road

I sentimenti sono anche il modo primo di conoscere un romanzo; e i romanzi sono il terreno di prova per conoscere il mondo, santuari dell'immaginazione dove affinare e mettere alla prova i nostri valori, le nostre scelte. I sentimenti sono lo strumento di lavoro dei romanzieri, i colori della loro tavolozza. ↗

— William Deresiewicz

#education

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#big #chance #changes #less #lives

When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The dilemma becomes a very real one: How can this sense of democratic equality be made compatible with respect for exceptional personalities or great minds? How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate? ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#civilization #conventions #distinction #equality #individualism

I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA. ↗

— Martin Fry

#count #directory #first #i #name

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. ↗

— Diogenes

#disgust #first #grapes #intoxication #kinds

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#fraction #hardly #life #little #little time

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#before #contests #day #deadline #each

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! ↗

— Andrew Gross

#bottom #california #central #chance #charles

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#bad #collaboration #doing #experiences #forward