True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
~By Alex Chilton ~
If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.
~By Thomas Perry ~
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.
~By Roy Ayers ~
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
~By David McCullough ~
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
~By Epictetus ~
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Every artist was first an amateur.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
~By Robert Herrick ~
As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
~By Trish Stratus ~
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
~By Warren Zevon ~
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
~By Aesop ~
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
~By Edward T. Hall ~
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.
~By Alvin Lee ~
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
~By Robert Browning ~
I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.
~By Josh Charles ~
There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
~By Gabe Paul ~
The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.
~By George Wald ~
If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light.
~By Tobe Hooper ~
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.
~By John Romero ~
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
~By Nancy Astor ~
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
~By Godfrey Harold Hardy ~
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
~By Florence Henderson ~
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
~By Adrian Mitchell ~
After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.
~By Steve Israel ~
To betray, you must first belong.
~By Kim Philby ~
Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
~By Beau Bridges ~
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.
~By Henry Thomas ~
I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.
~By Adriana Lima ~
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
~By Louis Agassiz ~
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
~By Jon Ronson ~
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~By William James ~
The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.
~By Corey Hart ~
In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.
~By Roy Barnes ~
It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.
~By Matthew McGrory ~
I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
~By Ivanka Trump ~
If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.
~By Robert Crippen ~
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
~By Gene Siskel ~
The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.
~By Julie Christie ~
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
~By Steve Irwin ~
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.
~By Kit Carson ~
I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
~By Javier Bardem ~
We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans.
~By Jim Otto ~
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
~By William Weld ~
What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.
~By Peter Schuyler ~
I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.
~By Jay Presson Allen ~
I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.
~By Denis Johnson ~
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
~By Georg Simmel ~
I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
~By Chuck Close ~
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.
~By Richard Helms ~
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
~By Gerald Finzi ~
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
~By John Foxe ~
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.
~By Piers Corbyn ~
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
~By Ben Affleck ~
My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.
~By Daniel Petrie ~
I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
~By Neil Innes ~
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.
~By Chuck D. ~
I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
~By Ville Valo ~
When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
~By Haley Barbour ~
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
~By William Temple ~
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
~By Aeschylus ~
When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.
~By Sadie Frost ~
First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
~By Carmen Electra ~
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.
~By Terry Goodkind ~
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
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