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  • Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.

    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music”, p.48, Penguin UK
  • The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

    Sports   War   Distance  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin
  • As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

    Reading   Crafts   Crowds  
  • Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.

    Dream   Perfect   Focus  
  • You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

  • The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

  • We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

    Aristotle (1983). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.196, Simon and Schuster
  • Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.

  • [Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.

    Strong   Men   Waiting  
    "Batman Begins (2005)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,
  • The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

  • Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

    Art   Band   Second Best  
  • No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.

  • The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself. He should do the best he can without straining at it. He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return. He won't get it. And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.

    Wise   Goodbye   Honesty  
  • The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

    David Weber (2013). “The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.

    Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.108, Simon and Schuster
  • This song of mine Is a song of the vine To be sung by the glowing embers Of wayside inns, When the rain begins To darken the drear Novembers. and For the richest and best Is the wind of the West That grows by the Beautiful River; Whose sweet perfume Fills all the room With a bension on the giver. and When you ask one friend to dine, Give hime your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do.

    Beautiful   Song   Sweet  
  • Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law

    Law   People   Rubbish  
    Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd
  • The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

  • Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.

    Jill Shalvis (2011). “Head Over Heels”, p.100, Hachette UK
  • The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

    Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.entrepreneur.com. October 13, 2008.
  • The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

    Running   Oil   World  
  • If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

    Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan
  • Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be the best - one who is worthy of all our devotion - Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour for the young and the old. Lord, here I am

  • Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.

    Science   Trying   Waste  
  • I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

    Sports   Winning   Play  
  • For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

    Ian Thorpe (2012). “This Is Me: The Autobiography”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
  • .. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up." Collin

    Brother   Feelings   Kind  
  • I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.

  • People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

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