Firsts Quote by Robin Hayes

I've been called Ellen DeGeneres on a number of occasions over the course of my career.

— Joe Root

“The first group I went to, there were introductions: this is Alice, this is Brenda, this is Dover. Everyone smiles with that invisible gun…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Imagine you’re visiting a place where there’s little to no English spoken and you wake up one day to find that the group you…

— Kim De Blecourt

With Dream Theater, every creative aspect of the group went through me. I oversaw it all from top to bottom.

— Mike Portnoy

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing…

— Christopher Guest

Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with…

— Gary Chapman

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

— Bebe Neuwirth

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

— Michael Pollan

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

— Bill Vaughan

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with…

— Jon Ronson

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

— Mark Twain

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

— Li Peng