All Quotes

At first, I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.
‐‐ Tiesto

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.
‐‐ Jonathan Davis

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.
‐‐ Kendrick Lamar

At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.
‐‐ Aurora

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
‐‐ Gordon Parks

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
‐‐ Francois Truffaut

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
‐‐ Fernando Pessoa

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.
‐‐ Jimmy Chamberlin

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
‐‐ Leon Bourgeois

At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme.
‐‐ Tove Lo

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

At first, one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost.
‐‐ Marek Hlasko

At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.
‐‐ Carol P. Christ

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
‐‐ Otto Hahn

At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.
‐‐ Bo Sanchez

At first, the tornado is nearly invisible. Against the sky, it's white on white.
‐‐ Greg MacGillivray

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of my pancreas, and a foot-and-a-half of my small intestine, and built me another bile duct and connected it to my stomach. It turned out to be pancreatic cancer, stage two, so, very aggressive.
‐‐ Sharon Jones

At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
‐‐ Tadashi Yanai

At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.
‐‐ Phil Knight

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.
‐‐ Jose Carreras

At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.
‐‐ Keith Coogan

At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.
‐‐ Matt Berninger

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.
‐‐ Hilary Duff

At first, when you go to premieres and award shows, you're thinking, 'How the hell am I here? All these people I've never met are here, and it's so cool!' And then, as time goes on, it's a little bit like, 'Ah... it's more like work.'
‐‐ Emma Stone

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.
‐‐ Nostradamus

At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.
‐‐ James Fenton

At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.
‐‐ LL Cool J

At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
‐‐ I. King Jordan

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
‐‐ Hjalmar Branting

At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
‐‐ Anna Maria Chavez

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.
‐‐ Anna Maria Chavez

At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
‐‐ John Jeremiah Sullivan

At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
‐‐ Joseph Kanon

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.
‐‐ Norman Lear

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
‐‐ Yara Shahidi

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
‐‐ Robert T. Bakker

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.
‐‐ Gram Parsons