Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.
Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.
I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from the maddest love!
A brick could be used as a way to motivate yourself to succeed. I’m proof that it works. It’s how I managed to get second to last in my last race.
By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.
Seriously, it's like watching mild porn, watching you two eye fuck each other every two seconds.
My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.
I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.
When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second t...
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape.
Move on. Be well. Go for it!
I have a question for you. "If your shadow is the second most beautiful thing in the world, which is the first?".
He looked like a Greek god. Jade’s thoughts snapped from togas to white sheets to sex in the span of two seconds.
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.
