All Quotes

The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
‐‐ Gavid Hood

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
‐‐ Jacques Derrida

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.
‐‐ Marc Davis

The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
‐‐ Benjamin Cohen

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.
‐‐ Gary Calamar

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.
‐‐ Trevor Noah

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
‐‐ Stendhal

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
‐‐ George Oppen

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
‐‐ John Cage

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'
‐‐ Peter Thiel

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
‐‐ George Leigh Mallory

The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.
‐‐ Nigel Mansell

The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.
‐‐ Action Bronson

The first reaction to truth is hatred.
‐‐ Tertullian

The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.
‐‐ Baba Kalyani

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.
‐‐ Amy Lee

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
‐‐ Robin Trower

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
‐‐ Gerry Mulligan

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.
‐‐ John Oates

The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.
‐‐ Josh Homme

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.
‐‐ Thomas Lennon

The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.
‐‐ Jesse McCartney

The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, 'Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should...' I just kept going.
‐‐ Ashley Monroe

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
‐‐ Kate Voegele

The first record was basically a quick, fast record. The second record, we were going for more of a poppier sound - like a heavy pop sound. For 'Rocket to Russia,' we'd sort of reached our pinnacle. We'd gotten really good at what we were doing, so that's like my favorite record - that's a really good record. It's just great from beginning to end.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.
‐‐ Travie McCoy

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
‐‐ Bill Wyman

The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my name. I'm the least pretentious actress you can ever meet. Someone said to me that I look like I've been doing this forever, and I said that's because I watch E!
‐‐ Amy Landecker

The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
‐‐ Dean Acheson

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
‐‐ John Major

The first requisite for immortality is death.
‐‐ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
‐‐ Karl Marx

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
‐‐ Henry Hazlitt

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem