Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Jennifer Egan

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Hunter Hayes

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

If it worked out, they would probably put the JVM on the second or third wave of the XP rollout.

Elena Dementieva

I feel like my first serve is getting better. But the second serve, I still slice it too much.

If I had to have a second daddy, it would be him.

Joey Harrington

I can see where this is going. Let's back off a second on taking shots down the field. When shots are available. Remember, this is still the same offense.

Jorge Garcia

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

Joanne Froggatt

If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

Jo Brand

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

Hermann Hesse

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

Oksana Baiul

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

James Lovelock

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

The first time, in 1997, we got second in the state.

The first half, we were flustered a little, ... The second half, we were more composed, more relaxed.

Sharron Angle

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

Scott Aukerman

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.

Michael Vick

You only get one shot at a second chance.

John Flanagan

Failure is just a few seconds away from success.

Leo Buscaglia

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

John Locke

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Kate Smith

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

Kate Morton

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

Paul Theroux

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

John Dryden

Second thoughts, they say, are best.

We had to go to her in the second half.

We had to give some things up in the second half.

This was the first half. We're now about to start the second half.

It was huge. It propelled you right through the second half.

It was just sitting in the zone. Three runs, and we're going to play catch-up from the top of the second inning on.

They wore us down in the second half,

Patrick Henry

We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.