Their First Quotes

204 Their First quotes by 183 unique authors

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing… — Kirk Hammett
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at… — Aldous Huxley
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. — William James
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. — Imelda Marcos
I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign,… — George McGovern
Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years. — John M. McHugh
No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking,… — Mike Mills
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. — Willie Nelson
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? — Howard Nemerov
The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once… — John Sununu
You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the… — Eddie Vedder
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington. — Jesse Ventura
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed… — Umberto Eco
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… — Herman Melville
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.… — Brigham Young
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting… — Jon Stewart
At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then… — Chelsea Handler
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.… — Victor Pelevin
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in… — Robin McKinley
You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they… — Neil Gaiman
They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked… — Richard Ford
In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To… — Melissa Marr
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first… — George Eliot
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame

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