First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
~By Charles Dickens ~
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
~By Winona Ryder ~
If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?
~By Matt Drudge ~
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
~By Karen Allen ~
The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
~By Ville Valo ~
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
~By Lee Child ~
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
~By Karl Marx ~
When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls.
~By Art Cooper ~
In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
~By William Billings ~
I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.
~By Tim Buckley ~
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
~By June Jordan ~
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~By William James ~
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
~By Ann Coulter ~
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
~By Betty Buckley ~
The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
~By Kate Moss ~
However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.
~By Alex Morrison ~
This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
~By James Green Somerville ~
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.
~By David Del Tredici ~
Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.
~By George Shearing ~
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
~By Barack Obama ~
I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
~By Al Goldstein ~
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
~By Vin Diesel ~
It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.
~By Carly Simon ~
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
~By Noah Wyle ~
Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
~By Rick Danko ~
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
~By Joe Shuster ~
In diagnosis think of the easy first.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
~By Edward M. Purcell ~
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
~By John Naisbitt ~
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
~By Uwe Boll ~
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
~By Kofi Annan ~
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
~By Walter Anderson ~
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
~By Steve Martin ~
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 ~
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
~By George Washington ~
You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.
~By Steve Lacy ~
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
~By Mac Davis ~
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
~By John Shadegg ~
After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.
~By Christie Brinkley ~
I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.
~By Liev Schreiber ~
My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
~By Hailee Steinfeld ~
One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
~By James Earl Jones ~
It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.
~By Shemar Moore ~
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
~By Kelly Preston ~
First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
~By LaToya London ~
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
~By David Korten ~
Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.
~By Kelly Preston ~
The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.
~By Robert Kirkman ~
Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.
~By Patty Murray ~
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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 first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
~By Wes Craven ~
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
~By Tea Leoni ~
And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.
~By Kurt Loder ~
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
~By Georg Brandes ~
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.
~By Alan Vega ~
The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
~By Kenneth Noland ~
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
~By Voltaire ~
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
~By Willie Nelson ~
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
~By Jack Kilby ~
You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.
~By June Allyson ~
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
~By Emma Bonino ~
Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.
~By Ron Livingston ~
I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
~By Mary Cheney ~
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
~By Jean Racine ~
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
~By George Burns ~
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
~By Karl von Frisch ~
Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.
~By Mako ~
I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
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