When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.” – Kevin W. Reese
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is.
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.
I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
