Firsts Quotes · Page 771

One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of…

— Jason Sudeikis

If I listen to a campaign promises, I would expect that on the first day [Donald Trump] would cancel all of the…

— Steve King

We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new…

— Melody Beattie

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There…

— Kevin Sessums

I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining,…

— Bell Hooks

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .…

— John Adams

That's the first thing they teach you in bowling, by the way. Don't press the ball against your nose. The other one…

— David Letterman

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

— Sophie Irene Loeb

Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously

— Sulak Sivaraksa

When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore.…

— Tracy Spiridakos

I told Grant Hill back there – I just got done playing against him – as a second grader I had a…

— Kevin Durant

Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but…

— Art Spiegelman

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.

— Clint Eastwood

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And,…

— Carrie Fisher

I think part of the bad thing is that skill is emphasized so much that a lot of people, by the time…

— Tod Machover

I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they…

— LaDainian Tomlinson

I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and…

— Garth Nix

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

— Demetri Martin

There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good…

— Frank Cottrell Boyce

I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from…

— Suzanne Collins

When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

— John William Strutt

First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need . First the nucleus…

— Robert Collier

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education…

— Aaron Scharf

I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from Armageddon…

— Chris Vance

The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to…

— Meg Cabot

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib.…

— Orson Welles

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

— Frederick Lenz

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover…

— Wynton Marsalis

You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life.…

— Christine Feehan

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

— Chloe Sevigny

Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments…

— Anonymous

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

— Criss Jami

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are…

— J. B. Smoove

I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events,…

— John Shelby Spong

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound…

— Darrell Royal

Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote…

— Alfred Gough

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us…

— Rob Bell

Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set…

— Robert Asprin