First Quotes · Page 193

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

— Waite Hoyt

When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

— Fionnula Flanagan

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom…

— Jennifer Armentrout

Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of…

— Demetri Martin

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response.…

— Brene Brown

In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my…

— Emmylou Harris

Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system…

— Susan Collins

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

— Stipe Miocic

When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on…

— Adam Derek Scott

Bette Midler was my first love, and the intensity of those feelings remain.

— Mae Martin

Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end…

— Summer Sanders

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved…

— Josef Albers

I went to USC and got my first break writing for a kids' show called 'Pepper Ann.'

— Nahnatchka Khan

The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because…

— Bianca Lawson

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til…

— Wayne Kramer

Tupac Back' was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

— Mike Will Made It

A lot people ask me, 'How do I become a voice actor?' and, well, first of all, drop the 'voice' because you…

— Troy Baker

My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't…

— Philip Reeve

I'm proud I'm the first Kenyan to play in the U.K. and I'd be very happy to be the first Kenyan to…

— Victor Wanyama

It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that…

— Twyla Tharp

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

— Sanjay Dutt

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe…

— Chris Hadfield

My first campaign for office was my election as North Carolina's first black lieutenant governor in 2020.

— Mark Robinson

“People who have fully prepared always save time. Albert Einstein was right to teach that if he is given six hours to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The first shows we played were after metal bands and everyone hated us.

— Calum Hood

I had never won anything until I won my first Stanley Cup.

— Martin Brodeur

I don't feel like a first lady.

— Brigitte Macron

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

— Peter Chernin

First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have…

— Jodi Kantor

Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us…

— Randal Kleiser

I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in…

— Bill Hader

I made some money, some real money on my first real estate transaction.

— Malik Yoba

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

— Lou Holtz

There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter…

— Jack Horner

I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would…

— Rachel Nichols

Offer is actually my first name. My Dad is Israeli, so that isn't totally made up.

— Vince Offer

There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences of having these jobs, they'd…

— Ben Shapiro

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

— Suze Orman

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

— John Lanchester

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy…

— Jen Kirkman