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100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.
I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
I flew helicopters, which actually is the second best view of the earth. The first best view is, I think, a little bit higher.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me.
Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second with a song.
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
It's only my second Masters, and I definitely jumped into that scene a little faster than I thought I would, to be completely honest.
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
I'll fight anyone I can beat. I'm a businessman first and a boxer second. I'm looking for the readies. The aim is to win at all costs.
I'm 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe it's not just a hunting right. It's a right for everyone to carry their weapons.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
My personal career highlights would be getting my first No. 1 record, 'Down in the DM' and getting the second one now with 'Rake It Up.'
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman.
We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
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.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of a British sense of fairness.