Their First Quotes

204 quotes by 183 authors

It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power,… — Charlton Heston
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be… — Wallace Stegner
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of… — David Guterson
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. — Len Deighton
Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of… — E. Cobham Brewer
That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in… — Nikola Tesla
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year. — Bill Walsh
They hadn't even gotten their first paychecks yet, ... My biggest thing was giving them a sense of reality and what costs would be. We… — Ron Pearson
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,… — Samuel Johnson
It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something. — Brian Francis
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I… — Rob Halford
Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed.… — Bill Walsh
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes… — Thomas More
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the… — Vanessa Carlton
Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their… — Noel Gallagher
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names. — Wayne Newton
But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the… — Jared Diamond
If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at… — Larry Walters
Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions of light-years- a… — Dennis Miller

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