Quotes of: Second-city Keyword

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Doris Lessing

A lot of people don't get second chances.

Tamar Braxton

I believe in giving people a second chance.

George Zimmer

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

Kate Smith

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

Shannen Doherty

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

Tia Mowry

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Jackie Gleason

The Best gift in life is a SECOND chance.

Life

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza roof to take leave of the beautiful city extending as far as the eyes could see, so now I went to t...

My Lost City: Personal Essays 1920-40

What is it, Master Calligrapher, that little girls do in the way that spiders weave?" sleeve asked primly. The Calligrapher coughed, for his room was very dusty, and there was dust even on his eyelashes, and said: "It is right and proper," he said, "...

In the Cities of Coin and Spice

Take a woman's first advice and not her second.

French

I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.

Brendon Urie

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Leon Battista Alberti

Like any dissidents they were neurotic archivists. Agree, disagree, show no interest in or obsess over their narrative of history, you couldn't say their didn't shore it up with footnotes and research.

The City & the City

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

Henry Rollins

Sarah in the City of Moon is a children’s book debating humanity, tackling questions such as: are conflicts taught or are they innate?” – Dalia Qutob 'Children are the best Legislators of the law and bylaw of love.''-Dalia Qutob

Sarah in the City of Moon

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired... Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

Middlesex

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

Olafur Eliasson

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as...

Dikembe Mutombo