(5335 quotes found)
“Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.”
Baltasar Gracian
“The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.”
Clarence Darrow
“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
John Updike
“There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.”
Vince Lombardi
“First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.”
Fitzhugh Dodson
“What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i”
Louis L'Amour
“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
Lenny Bruce
“I don't have to say 'Rap it up' every two seconds, or 'Don't do drugs' every two seconds. They know they're not supposed to use drugs, and they know they're supposed to put a condom on.”
Curtis Jackson
“I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.”
Candice Bergen
“The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”
Warren Buffett
