There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
Wynton Marsalis

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.
Thomas Haden Church

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
Minor White

If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.
Mark Spitz

It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.
Keith Urban

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Harold Pinter

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
Harold Pinter

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy

I was always the second heavy.
Broderick Crawford

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
Carly Patterson

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
Richard Needham

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Bernard Berenson

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
Shelby Foote

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
Lester B. Pearson

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.
Michael Novak

First things first, second things never.
Shirley Conran

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.
Petra Nemcova

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
Annette Funicello

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.
Clifford D. Simak