Best Second Hand Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Used" is such an odd word, so much stranger than "second-hand." A prefix for condoms, and there's a certain squalor attached to the idea of reusing those.”

Used Second Hand Squalor

Book:The Bookstore

Source: The Bookstore

“Florida buyers will need to be aware that many previously flooded building lots and second hand homes will be sold to unsuspecting people.”

Many Aware Second Hand Homes Sold Flooded Previously Building Lots Florida Buyers Unsuspecting People

Author:Steven Magee

“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?”

Time Second Hand Watch

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.”

Looks Hands Politics Conversation Clock Racing Second Hand

Author:Dennis Miller

“Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?”

Mean Hands Time Watches Thirds Down And Slow Down Second Hand

Author:George Carlin

“What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!”

Hands Time Speak Sun Paper Slave Ridiculous Circles Curse Silver Dictatorship Overrated Second Hand Knobs

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.”

Men Writing Play Hands Given Novel Grace Genius Criticism Critics Second Hand

Book:Language and Silence

Source: Language and Silence

“More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.”

People World Firsts Country Hands Values Culture Information Tvs Internet Phones Other Countries Mobile Validity Other Cultures Mobile Phones Second Hand First Hand Experience

Author:Nitin Sawhney

“The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.”

People Knows Book Play Hands Acting Class Creative Taken Pieces Written Judgment Jokes Theatre Virgins Second Hand Acting Classes

Author:John Lahr

“Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.”

Writing Hands Seems Consciousness Communication Speech Remove Second Hand

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.”

“Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.”

Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man

“A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.”

Hands Lost Grows Identity Taste Familiar Dull Shops Coats Second Hand Overused

Author:Anais Nin

“Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.”

Two Hands Literature Class Genius Originals Medicine Depth Nonsense Divided Second Hand Quacks Erudition

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.”

People Knows Ideas Whole Hands Turns Dangerous Bars Smoke Smoking Nuts Smokers Second Hand Bartender Stop Smoking Informants Workspace Second Hand Smoke

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.”

Stills Book Hands Together Pages Sticks Excitement Delightful Great Book Second Hand Bookshops

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.”

Hands Perception Photography Photographer Allowing Second Hand

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'”

Firsts Looks Hands Law Used Novel Wife Feet Research Tools Historical Eight My Wife Instance Online Bookstores Wilson Encyclopedia Second Hand Certitude Historical Novels Bastille

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.”

Thinking Knows Hands Kids Poor Grew Paper Clothes Grew Up Canada Toronto Forged Second Hand New Clothes Second Hand Clothes

Author:Paulo Costanzo

“Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.”

Thinking Men Hands Difficult Hours Watches Progress Perception West Western Evolve Clock Second Hand

Author:David Lynch

“I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.”

I Can Hands Bears Clothes Designer Shops Pounds Second Hand Thrifty Designer Clothes Second Hand Clothes

Author:Ashley Jensen

“The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.”

Men World Has Beens Hands Given Media Television Illusion Accounts Claims Movie Divides Reporters Fifth Second Hand

Author:Josephine Herbst

“Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.”

Two Hands Achieve Needed Holes Second Hand Two Hands

Book:One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel

Source: One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel

“Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.”

Hands Mouths Second Hand

Author:Karl Kraus

“But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.”

May Important Book Hands Important Things Profound Critics Second Hand

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.”

Hands Time Pieces Cutting Clock Dislike Second Hand Small Pieces

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”

Source: A child of the century

“One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.”

Thinking Humans Book Sometimes Hands Pain Life Is Human Beings Second Hand Love And Pain

Book:Travels With My Aunt

Source: Travels With My Aunt

“What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.”

I Can Ideas Helping Hands Wanted Missing Smell No Idea Second Hand Bookshops

Author:David Mitchell

“I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.”

Hands Grew Grew Up Library Second Hand Bookshops

Author:Charles Stross

“All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer, reverence, holy books, proselytizing, prophesying, faith, speaking in tongues or spirituality. Fight the menace of second-hand faith! Humanity sincerely thanks you!”

“By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing.”

People Want Looks Kind Two Hands Values Three Audience Historical Beast Buying Goods Aesthetic Antiques Retail Second Hand Wholesale Auctions

Author:Paul Brown

“The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.”

Doe Hands Lying Leader Happened Influence Information Theory Importance Reasoning Peculiar Revolt Second Hand

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.”

World Ideas Hands Secret Information Offers Mediocrity Scrap Second Hand Illustrating

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.”

I Can Hands Known Smoke Hazards Second Hand Epa Second Hand Smoke

Author:Michael Crichton

“The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.”

Source: In defense of Harriet Shelley

“Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.”

People Ideas Hands Sound Style Definitions Pops Surface Bowie Second Hand

Author:Brian Eno

“In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.”

Believe Reason Hands School Parent Realizing High School Backgrounds Second Hand Family Background

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.”

“I do a lot of vintage shopping. I love going to second-hand stores.”

Hands Stores Shopping Vintage Second Hand Vintage Shopping

Author:Victoria Justice

“I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Hands Used House Stuff Parent Stores Cute Shops Fleas Dead People Second Hand Flea Markets Cute Things

Author:Roz Chast

“I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody and it's such a power hit of a track. Every time it pops on I like listening to it, I'm really drawn to it.”

Thinking Home Hands Song Listening Track Albums Pops Melody Favourite Vocal Rapture Second Hand Favourite Songs

Author:Lizzy Plapinger

“I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.”

Knows Kind Hands House Army Salvation Hawaii Second Hand Retro Salvation Army

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it.”

People Knows Trying Kind Mean Hands Flying Hated Frustration Virgins Airline Second Hand

Author:Richard Branson

“My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a passage in Jacques Pépin's autobiography (The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen) in which he describes prying snails from the terrace of his vacation home and cooking them up for dinner.”

Firsts Has Beens I Can Home Hands Remember Cooking Come Up Dinner Best Things Kitchen Encounters Passages Vacation Lacking Autobiography Pins Apprentice Snail Second Hand Terrace

Author:Debra Hamel

“The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on the community and friends and family for support, and I learned to play hockey using second hand equipment.”

Play Hands Sports Parent Community Challenges Support Cost Hockey Family And Friends Equipment Second Hand

Author:P. K. Subban

“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”

Heart Hands Seems Religion Literature Greater Fine Ideals Tradition Dependent Second Hand Fine Things Greater Things

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?”

Hands Garden Very Happy Gardener Second Hand Bookshops

Author:Hilary Mantel

“The information I have about Iran is second hand.”

Hands Information Iran Second Hand

Author:Marjane Satrapi

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