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Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas sometimes ten years.

The first glass is for myself the second for my friends the third for good humor and the forth for my enemies.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then y'know that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

Well I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

During the Second World War evacuated to non-Jewish households I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

But as far as Twitter I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases that could be dangerous because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

If history is a guide a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease I think is gonna be guinea worm.

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.

History repeats itself first as tragedy second as farce.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The first draught serveth for health the second for pleasure the third for shame and the fourth for madness.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country and certainly addressing the uninsured is one and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling but I'll settle for second best.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.