Best His First Lines
259 His First quotes by 224 unique authors
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from…
— Aleister Crowley
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We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96…
— Jesse Jackson
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was…
— Magic Johnson
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'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first…
— Jon Landau
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I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country.…
— Artie Lange
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
— H. L. Mencken
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President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which…
— Dennis Miller
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
— George Jean Nathan
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the…
— Richard M. Nixon
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In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes…
— Kevin O'Leary
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Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and…
— Tony Parsons
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I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first…
— Ann Romney
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority…
— Karl Rove
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When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
— Rita Rudner
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
— George Bernard Shaw
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After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in…
— Jesse Ventura
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In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked…
— Tom Vilsack
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We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic…
— Frank Herbert
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Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause somethinge…
— Pascal Mercier
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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius…
— Muhammad Ali
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A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at…
— Melody Beattie
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As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where…
— David Sedaris
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It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar…
— Paul Newman
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The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a…
— Jonathan Stroud
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