Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. Katharine Whitehorn
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. Virginia Woolf
My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures-a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one-there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.... Roger Zelazny
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. Lionel Shriver
I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do ... The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday. Joe Strummer
When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend. Chinese Proverb