Quotes of: Second Keyword

The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes Richard's struggle to restore good to the world. After the initial international run, which sold over 30 million copies w...

Frank Graves

Alec took a deep breath and let it out. Well, he’d come this far; he might as well go on. The bare lightbulb hanging overhead cast sweeping shadows as he reached forward and pressed the buzzer. A moment later a voice echoed through the stairwell. �...

Cassandra Clare

[Karl has given Sarah a lift home after the Christmas party. They are standing on her doorstep] Karl: Well, I-I'd better go. Sarah: Okay. Karl: Goodnight. Sarah: Goodnight. [he gives her a quick peck on the cheek, then they begin to kiss passionately...

Love Actually

Bill: At my cousin Ruthie's wedding, the groom's brother was that guy Alakazam. You know who I'm talking about? Stan: The magician with the ponytail? Bill: Right. Well, he did his act, and every time he made something disappear, Vinny jumped on him. ...

My Cousin Vinny

Jesse James: Well, Charley, did you hurt your leg? Charley Ford: Yeah, I slipped... I slipped off the roof and I smacked down into a snow bank, like a ton of stupidness. One second I'm screamin', "Woah Nelly!", Next second, poof, I'm neck-deep in sno...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

[Biff is waxing George's car, it's a silver BMW] George McFly: Now, Biff, I want make sure that we get two coats of wax this time, not just one. Biff Tannen: I'm just finishing up the second coat now. George McFly: Now, Biff, don't con me. Biff Tanne...

Back to the Future

When he lifted his head, she clung to his shoulders, both of them breathing hard. He cradled her cheek in one palm. “I’m not asking you to believe now. I know it’s too soon for that, after…well, after everything. If you can believe just for t...

Love

...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.

The Countess Conspiracy

I must say, cowboy, I'm impressed. I was worried you could only handle eight seconds at a time.

Chasing Trouble

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other.

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Froi of the Exiles

A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.

The Fever

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

Gregor and the Code of Claw

Supposedly, guys think about sex every eight seconds. If that's true, how can they talk to their grandmothers?

Babe in Boyland

Trying to second-guess Tegan was like trying to track a tornado. A tornado he had no business chasing.

Beg Me to Slay

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Edward Sapir

There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.

Joe Klein

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Tommy Cooper

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Robert Wyatt

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

Friedrich Schleiermacher