Firsts Quotes
20399 quotes by 9251 authors
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I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
— Matt Drudge
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Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't…
— Cate Blanchett
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This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That's it. Beginning and end of list,…
— Anthony Jeselnik
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
— Remy de Gourmont
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According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice…
— Jay Leno
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The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
— Lucretius
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One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole…
— Chrissie Hynde
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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],…
— Frederick Soddy
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Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow…
— Noel Coward
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
— Bill Cosby
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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be…
— Bruce Barton
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The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada…
— Erma Bombeck
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For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the…
— Erma Bombeck
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
— Josh Billings
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One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
— Jack Kornfield
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
— Brooks Atkinson
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.
— Michelle Obama
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