Quotes of: Every-second Keyword

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me which way to go, Shakespeare.

Moonlight

I don't want Sydney ever to feel like my second choice, when I know in my heart that she's the right choice. The only choice.

Maybe Someday

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Amongst silly GAMES people play...BLAME is the poorest! JUDGMENT comes a close second..CYNICISM is for losers.. ‪#‎Games‬ People Play

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

The Notebook

First, I'm not pestering you. I'm trying to make it clear that I want to fuck you into oblivion. Second, there is no other woman that I'm interested in. Clear enough for you?

Off Course

A wife is a friend first, a lover second, and third and probably most important, a maid.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

I am the three minutes of 180 seconds, and I don’t do refills. I’m a lover, not a farmer.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

Ladies Coupé

I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck

The Lost Days

A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.

Life Knocks

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

Love Warps the Mind a Little

I make love like I make lasagna. I just made some, so would you like seconds?

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

Leonardo and the Last Supper

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.

The Last Werewolf

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

Still Life

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.

Second Shift: Order

Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville." "You're practically a god.

Split Second