First Place Quotes

879 First Place quotes by 662 unique authors

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to… — Jodi Picoult
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the… — Sarah Dessen
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases… — Chuck Palahniuk
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then… — Barack Obama
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? — William S. Burroughs
Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some. — Stephen Colbert
Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride… — Takehiko Inoue
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the… — Michael Crichton
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place — Gore Vidal
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first… — Jorge Luis Borges
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were… — Abigail Van Buren
In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign… — Mikhail Lermontov
Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with… — Bertrand Russell
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money… — George Burns
In the first place, youâ€™re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself. — J D Salinger
Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The… — Kurt Vonnegut
I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her… — Cassandra Clare
You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place. — Kelly Link
This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in… — Nick Hornby

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