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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. — David Mitchell

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes. — Sybille Bedford

What is love but a second-hand emotion? — Tina Turner

A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop. — Virginia Woolf

He prefers his adventures second hand. — Sara Sheridan

your second-hand bicycles in the alleyways — John Altman

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. — Michael Crichton

It's the way his pinky hooks with mine, just for a second, before he full-on cups my hand. — Krista Ritchie

God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here. — Joel Osteen

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

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand. — Herta Muller

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. — Kahlil Gibran

On the instant when we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand. — William Faulkner

I laid a hand on his cheek; it was so bright that for a second I thought it was burning me, a pure painless fire. — Tana French

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? — Julian Barnes

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in. — Bjork

Mark Twain said "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources. — Sean Patrick

Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self]. — Dada Bhagwan

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. — Ben Hecht

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? — Hilary Mantel

If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke? — Doug Stanhope

The information I have about Iran is second hand. — Marjane Satrapi

Second hand books have a way of travelling, sure. But what travels forward can come back. — Cath Crowley

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. — John Le Carre

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

In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures. — Rachel Hall

When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall. — Umberto Eco

An elaborate watch may deserve more for a second-hand look — Priyavrat Thareja

The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage. — Orlando Bloom

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

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. — Charles Dickens

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

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. — Leigh Hunt

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

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. — Charles Stross

I love going to second-hand stores. — Victoria Justice

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand. — John Paul Caponigro

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? — George Carlin

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand? — Steven Wright

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. — Will Self

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried. — David Ogden Stiers

Demons do tend to cluster around the yellowing pages and cracked spines of second hand books. — Graham Joyce

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler

I do a lot of vintage shopping. I love going to second-hand stores. — Victoria Justice

Time could barely pull the second hand forward on the clock ... — Ann Patchett

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth. — Karl Kraus

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories. — S.A. Tawks

I'm sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers ... — Stephan Lawrence Theodore Clifford

Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. Pass it does. Even for me. — Stephenie Meyer

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. — Paul Hoffman

Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that! — Ben Harper

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death. — Tom Stoppard

I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand. — Alastair Reynolds

He nearly always put his hand on his friend's arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him. — Carson McCullers

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

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These were tears from heaven. They were second hand sadness. — Viveca Benoir

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned ... — Stephenie Meyer

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. — Clay Shirky

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. — Mark Twain

There's death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don't pay attention. Until we do. — Cynthia Hand

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes. — Roz Savage

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