Firsts Quotes · Page 38

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first…

— Yukimi Nagano

[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them…

— Rush Limbaugh

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then…

— Paul Walker

A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his…

— Art Linkletter

Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her…

— Nora Roberts

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not.…

— Oscar Wilde

I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I…

— Twyla Tharp

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got…

— Avicii

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs,…

— John Doolittle

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

— David Bowie

I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it…

— Kiese Laymon

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the…

— James E. Faust

It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the…

— Sallust

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

— Yves Klein

An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than…

— Orson Scott Card

since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in…

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul…

— Anonymous

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform…

— Hal Abelson

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning…

— Mark Haddon

Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

— Antonio Machado

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in…

— Roger Angell