If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve)… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Sometimes I like to go outside without even checking the weather first. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good… — Jorge Posada Copy Share Image
One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I hated being "Mrs." from the first second each time. I didn't know why. All I knew was how uncomfortable it felt.… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in? — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
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You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I get along really well with Lars [von Trier] but definitely during our first meetings I was feeling him out and he… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
It is through drawing that masters are first revealed, through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may… — Michael Gerard Bauer Copy Share Image
Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that.… — Julio Iglesias Copy Share Image
You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
The first day I went to law school, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. It was nothing like what I thought. — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality. — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
That movie was my girlfriend. That was my girl." I knew there was going to be initial anger. As a matter of… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image