Because in a split second, it's gone.

- Ayrton Senna

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

- Anthony Marra

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

- Alexander Haig

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

- Adam Jones

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

- Avicii

Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.

- Astro Teller

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

- Ashley Madekwe

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

- Andy Murray

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

- Ahmed Zewail

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

- Ayrton Senna

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

- Abraham Lincoln

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

- Ayrton Senna

I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

- Ava DuVernay

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

- Ann Coulter

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

- Andrew Carnegie

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

- Amy Tan

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

- Alfred Nobel

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

- Al Sharpton