First Quotes · Page 71

Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a…

— Cara Buono

The first thing I do before I get out of bed is reach for my phone and open Instagram.

— Anastasia Soare

When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.

— Kat Graham

It's rare that I go on a first date and don't want to go out again.

— Lamorne Morris

I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band…

— Rick Wakeman

The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from…

— Poorna Jagannathan

“Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.”

— Jim George

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without…

— Anonymous

When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way.…

— Roy Wood

Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were…

— Philippe Perrin

“A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make…

— Richie Norton

I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes…

— Bat for Lashes

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I…

— Natsuo Kirino

No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before…

— Bob Ehrlich

I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through…

— Damien Chazelle

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man…

— Paul Johnson

There is a tremendous amount of pressure when you are a world No. 1 with everyone behind you trying to knock you…

— Jahangir Khan

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To…

— Per Petterson

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and…

— Claire Coffee

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved…

— Rory Bremner

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I…

— Edmund White

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went…

— Gad Elmaleh

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be…

— Harbhajan Singh

Sometimes siblings do not get along, so there is no guarantee that having another baby is good for the first one.

— Sonja Morgan

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing…

— River Viiperi

In the UFC, at first we were like a family, but then it turned corporate. In Bellator, we're family.

— Tito Ortiz

Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.

— Marc Veasey

I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.

— Evan Goldberg

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

— Dalia Mogahed

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

— Bo Jackson

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.

— Ann Wilson

'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

— Jessica Clark

When I first came to Def Jam, in '06, all we ever did was win, put up big numbers.

— Rick Ross

When Peter Schneider first approached me about adapting 'Sister Act' for the stage, it wasn't a slam dunk to say yes.

— Alan Menken

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

— Brian Koslow

I think I'm so much of a better driver than I was when I first came to Duke; that's the biggest thing…

— Grayson Allen

One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.

— Jesmyn Ward

We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place.

— Boyan Slat