First Quotes And Sayings

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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~


It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
~By Jim Cooper ~


If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~


Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
~By William Bartram ~


What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.
~By Gerald McRaney ~


Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
~By Nicholson Baker ~


I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
~By Larry David ~


You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.
~By Michael J. Fox ~


The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
~By Donna Tartt ~


I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~


Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
~By Gary North ~


A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
~By David Hilbert ~


For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
~By Richard J. Needham ~


I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.
~By Dave Foley ~


An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
~By William Ames ~


Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
~By John Keble ~


And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
~By Thomas Moore ~


If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
~By Enid Bagnold ~


My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
~By Chris Brown ~


If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
~By Lao Tzu ~


Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.
~By Marlee Matlin ~


It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.
~By James Payn ~


The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
~By Charles Dickens ~


I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
~By Joanna Newsom ~


Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.
~By Claudio Hummes ~


There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
~By Gabe Paul ~


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 ~


When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
~By Wayne Kramer ~


For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world.
~By Peter Chernin ~


I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~


On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
~By Josef Albers ~


I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.
~By Lauren Hutton ~


And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~


The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
~By Neil Young ~


The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
~By Jackie Robinson ~


To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
~By Jane Austen ~


There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
~By Henri Matisse ~


I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
~By Stone Gossard ~


That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~


Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
~By Pope John Paul II ~


The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
~By William Godwin ~


It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.
~By Michael Aspel ~


When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
~By Leif Garrett ~


For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.
~By Treat Williams ~


Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.
~By David Soul ~


I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.
~By Richard Thompson ~


Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.
~By Gianni Agnelli ~


They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
~By Alexander Cockburn ~


About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
~By Sidney Altman ~


Self-preservation is the first responsibility.
~By Margaret Anderson ~


The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.
~By James Lipton ~


You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~


I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
~By Dolly Parton ~


I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
~By Elia Kazan ~


First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
~By David Ogilvy ~


Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~


I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~


In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
~By Francis Darwin ~


If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
~By Robert B. Parker ~


From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
~By Billy Crystal ~


The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.
~By Casey Affleck ~


The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.
~By James Franco ~


First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
~By Huston Smith ~


There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
~By Norman Mailer ~


I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
~By Kurt Cobain ~


Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~


After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~


I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
~By Agnes Macphail ~


The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
~By Larry Dixon ~


Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.
~By Bobby Hull ~


The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.
~By Mink Stole ~


The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
~By Francis Schaeffer ~


First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda.
~By Heather Locklear ~


But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
~By Herbie Mann ~


My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.
~By Richard Virenque ~


The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~


I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~


Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.
~By John Mica ~


The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
~By Parker Stevenson ~


I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
~By Jim Hodges ~


I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
~By Arturo Toscanini ~


If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.
~By Lenny Bruce ~


When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.
~By Satyajit Ray ~


To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
~By Thomas Harrison ~


We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
~By Jerry Lewis ~


When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
~By Tom Cruise ~


How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
~By Will Durst ~


When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.
~By Kurt Russell ~


The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
~By Carl Hiaasen ~


If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
~By Alan Thicke ~


The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
~By Julie London ~


But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
~By Peter Shaffer ~


Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.
~By Peter Jurasik ~


The first step... shall be to lose the way.
~By Galway Kinnell ~


I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
~By Simone Signoret ~


What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
~By Aimee Semple McPherson ~


One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.
~By Christopher Atkins ~


The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
~By Walter Bagehot ~


I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
~By Aaron Brown ~


My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.
~By Holly Marie Combs ~

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