First Quotes · Page 95

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

— Jack Kilby

First and foremost, I loved basketball. My dad introduced me to basketball when I was a baby.

— Lauren Wasser

It's pretty easy for me because I have a wonderful wife. We put God first and it takes a lot of hard…

— Bo Bice

For Bryan and me, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were our first baby. And your first baby is always special.

— Joel Glazer

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

— Ludovic Halevy

I don't know the first thing about acting and I don't want to know. I just go out there and do it.

— Ken Wahl

My first priority is my children, and when Brielle's grades were failing, I made it a big, big deal!

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

— Caroline Flack

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning,…

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

When I made my First-Class debut, my first spell was of 10 overs. So I was always used to bowling lot of…

— Jasprit Bumrah

You have to be aware of your own shortcomings. The main thing I try not to do is lose my temper. Doing…

— Terry Wogan

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be…

— Jane Pauley

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough…

— Dana Brunetti

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my…

— Tom Lehrer

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously…

— Subcomandante Marcos

South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my…

— Jann Klose

Whenever I approach a record, I don't really have a science to it. I approach every record differently. First record was in…

— Matisyahu

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

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

— Claire Coffee

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

— Per Petterson

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

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

— Joel Parkinson

I'm the first girl from Afghanistan to lead a series in the United States.

— Azita Ghanizada

When I first met Clint Eastwood, I bobbed him a curtsy. I still cringe about that to this day.

— Trudie Styler

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los…

— Swoosie Kurtz

First time I met Hulk Hogan, I had a life-sized poster of him in my room and I idolized him as a…

— Christian Cage

I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.

— Dana Loesch

One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

When you wear something different, you have to be confident that not everyone may get it at first.

— Coco Rocha

I really enjoyed being able to get my first home run in the big leagues.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

I hate feeling full first thing in the morning. I actually hate feeling full until it's night-time.

— Mat Fraser

After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'

— Blake Lively

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

— Arizona Muse

My first mind-set when I am out on the field is to defend well and not concede.

— Naby Keita

I think I got 80% in my 10th grade and I did pretty well, and I think first class in the degree…

— Mayank Agarwal

When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

— Jimmy Barnes

My first proper credit was a small voice-over on an episode of 'The Sopranos' when I was, like, 11 or 12.

— Morgan Saylor