First Quotes · Page 101

If you can't get a word at first, it's always waiting somewhere, and it's just a case of finding it.

— Leslie Bricusse

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.

— Betty Hill

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

— Nerlens Noel

I worked with Harold Pinter once as my first Broadway show. It was one of the most exciting things that ever happened…

— F. Murray Abraham

When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them.

— Ana Navarro

I signed my first publishing deal when I was 14, and it was from two records I put on MySpace.

— MNEK

I've been impressed with Rick Guzman and his commitment to the residents of Aurora since I first met him many years ago.

— Dick Durbin

Every thing in life that's first should be a celebration or celebrated with a lot of oomph.

— Kriti Sanon

I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I…

— Alicia Coppola

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.…

— Maya Angelou

My first call is always to my dad. It's really rad. What had initially drove my dad and me apart - all…

— Steve-O

One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a…

— Brian Reitzell

First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process.…

— Adam Arkin

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night"…

— Gary Calamar

My job is to make certain that I've done what I was asked and my department has done what we were asked…

— Desiree Rogers

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the…

— Chuck Brown

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and…

— Christina Hendricks

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against…

— Rick Atkinson

'Habits & Contradictions' is the prequel to 'Setbacks.' I had all these titles already in my head before I even dropped 'em.…

— Schoolboy Q

Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy,…

— John Wycliffe

When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on…

— Megan Charpentier

When the audience first sees Cooper talking into his tape recorder at the beginning of 'Twin Peaks,' I think that's the greatest…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits,…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original…

— John Lloyd Young

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

— Hunter Hayes

That's a great guy to learn from - I learned a lot from Zaza when I was in my first couple of…

— Kevon Looney

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.

— Brooke Shields

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

— Maria Callas

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

— Steve Brown

My first NBA game was in Paris. It was Miami against the Nets, and Vince Carter was playing.

— Evan Fournier

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

— David Chang

When the 'Book of Mormon' was first published, some of those who believed in it taught it to others and testified of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

You never know what's going to happen but I'd love to get married first and then have a really amazing honeymoon.

— Charlotte Crosby

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a…

— Warren Ellis

The proper thing to do would have been to first ask my consent before remixing 'Mungda.'

— Rajesh Roshan

The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class.

— Guy Standing

When I first moved to New York, you know, I was a starving artist.

— Ariana DeBose

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

— Neil Innes

Beating the Germans for the first time in our history was massive.

— Karen Bardsley

The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.

— Siobhan Davies