When I was in my first year of college at Logan, Utah, I bought an old car for a hundred dollars. I… — F. Burton Howard Copy Share Image
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New… — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same. — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there. — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it… — Jack Burke, Jr Copy Share Image
It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess.… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book… — Gordon Gee Copy Share Image
I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are… — Phil Hellmuth Copy Share Image
It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or… — Benjamin Cheever Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I first started watching Godzilla, I was a kid and a big dinosaur freak and was like, "Oh my gosh, there's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit,… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image