Second-Hand Quotes

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear. Jiddu Krishnamurti
People Result Nothing Second-Hand Our Guided Circumstances Ourselves Kinds Tendencies Clear Environment New Accept Pristine Been Discovered Influences Either Us Nothing New Original Lived Compelled
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage. Orlando Bloom
Best Try Second-Hand Way Hunting Best Way Budget Look Stylish Bargain Vintage
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. Arthur Schopenhauer
History Second-Hand Other Properly Only Seldom Also Metal However Hand Inferior Hands Newspapers Works Second
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. D. H. Lawrence
Life Religion You Heart Will Own Second-Hand Later Fine Seem Ideals Greater Tradition Dependent Establish Lesser Thing
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in. Bjork
Second-Hand Kicks Hunting Totally Instinct Highs Expect Get Shops Really Honest
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted. Mark Haddon
You People Second-Hand Books Writer Go Been Trying Wanted Successful Whose Graveyard
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand. P. J. O'Rourke
Thoughts Confused Second-Hand Sloppy Had Absorb Like Hippie Which Phase Early
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. Alejandro Amenabar
Me Mother Second-Hand Books Brother Scary Take Liked Were Hand Get Any Wanted Used Published Second
I get mad at myself when I get news from Twitter before I get it from a regular news source. Then I'm off to a bad start: getting the second-hand, filtered experience all day long. Carrie Brownstein
Myself Day News Experience Long Before Twitter Second-Hand Filtered All Day Mad Bad Source Off Get Getting Then Regular Start
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. Cyril Connolly
Thoughts Will Whatever Second-Hand Second-Rate Out Lazy He Talents Himself Condemned Friends Person Which Set
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried. David Ogden Stiers
You People Nice Second-Hand Enough Giant Tick Hear Hand Second
There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes. Ferdinand Marcos
Family Joke Shoes Second-Hand Go Selling Should Standard
I was 17 years old when I built the first store... A very simple, basic store with a basic counter - not very much equipment, all purchased second-hand. And the menu was very simple. Fred DeLuca
Simple Old First Second-Hand Purchased Menu Counter Built Equipment Years Very Store Much Basic
If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is. Gary Hume
News Desperate Feeling Second-Hand Bit Drawn Out Magazines Poetry Through Particular Like Am Concrete Go Wondering Realise Then Agents Rack Stand Why Things Start
It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most of it away. I don't live a luxurious life. I drive a small second-hand Fiat. I don't have to worry about money, which is itself a privilege. But I never had any anxiety that I would lose my identity. Henning Mankell
Life Anxiety Money Drive Lose Live Luxurious Second-Hand Earn Secret Worry Would About Give Small No Secret Never Had Most Also Obviously Identity Lot Itself Privilege Any Fiat Which Away
I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? Hilary Mantel
Be Happy Happy Garden Second-Hand Would Am Very Gardener
Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is. Jack Falahee
You Clothes Enjoy Second-Hand Find Able Guy Eclectic Through Look Until Styles Always How Been Hand Lot Up Get Vibe Being Different Store Really Different Styles Vintage Second Recently
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. John le Carre
Library Man Book Second-Hand Really
My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives. Loni Anderson
Sister Second-Hand Our Entire Entire Lives Both Never Smoke Smoked Diagnosed Up Grew Lives
Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor. Lynn Coady
Music Needs Second-Hand Other Minimal Musician Podium Writer Make Hall Lecture Hand Get Behind Anything Lends Stand Help Who Nicely
For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums. Michel Faber
Atheist Down Second-Hand Churches Record Years Quite Burn Wanted Them Turn Militant
I got my first blockbuster break for the movie 'Cocktail,' where I sang 'Second Hand Jawani.' Neha Kakkar
First Cocktail Second-Hand Got Blockbuster Hand Where Movie Break Sang Second
I still pinch myself that I have a second-hand Aston Martin DBS Volante, the convertible model of James Bond's car from 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Casino Royale.' Paul Hollywood
Myself Casino Car Second-Hand Solace Martin Quantum Still Pinch Model James Convertible Bond
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. Paulo Costanzo
You Clothes Think Second-Hand Paper Kid Toronto Something New Like Know Until New Clothes Fairly Were Up Canada Forged Owned Any Grew Poor
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Music You Together Style Second-Hand Slightly Those Kind Wear Outfit Outfits Pretty Mary Mary Poppins Put Terms Nanny Sound Sound Of Music Been Mixture Julie Julie Andrews Lot Get Influence Little Icons Much Used Things Watch Olivia Grease
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales. Val McDermid
Time Bible School Mysteries Second-Hand Books Later Spent Libraries Only Developed House Were Discovered Sales Lot Jumble Taste Holidays Then Grandparents Copy
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