First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.
‐‐ Rose Leslie
First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.
‐‐ Anthony Hemingway
First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.
‐‐ Chuck Fleischmann
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
‐‐ Saint Basil
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.
‐‐ Sarah Zettel
First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
‐‐ Brene Brown
First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.
‐‐ John Podesta
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
‐‐ Adam McKay
First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
‐‐ Harold Ramis
First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
‐‐ Gail Simmons
First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
‐‐ Nadia Giosia
First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.
‐‐ Terence Winter
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First, as I've always said, it all starts with product, which means having the right assortment, styles, and fits. Second is price, where we strive to offer the best quality, style, and design at a fair value. This is critically important, given the highly promotional environment we are operating in. And third, traffic.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
‐‐ Vito Fossella
First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they've treated me with respect.
‐‐ Lizzo
First be best, then be first.
‐‐ Grant Tinker
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
‐‐ Mitt Romney
First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
‐‐ Kate Middleton
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
‐‐ Robert Harris
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill
First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.
‐‐ Ron Barber
First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.
‐‐ Kumar Mangalam Birla
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson
First date, it's always fun to go somewhere or do something, like go see a band... not make it too formal.
‐‐ Behati Prinsloo
First dates are so awkward and annoying. I think a casual and fun first date with friends is much more fun than a one-on-one typical first date.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
‐‐ Barton Gellman
First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie
First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
‐‐ Vanessa Diffenbaugh
First episodes are difficult things to write.
‐‐ Michael Hirst
'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
‐‐ Yara Shahidi
First feelings are always the most natural.
‐‐ Louis XIV
First fight. Then fiddle.
‐‐ Gwendolyn Brooks
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
‐‐ Amos Bronson Alcott
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
‐‐ Horatio Nelson
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller
First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury
First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
‐‐ Peter Nivio Zarlenga
First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
‐‐ Andrew Bernstein
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
‐‐ Geoffrey Chaucer
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.
‐‐ Thomas E. Mann
First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
‐‐ Barack Obama
First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.
‐‐ George Pataki
First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.
‐‐ Liya Kebede
First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.
‐‐ Judith Martin
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
‐‐ Carl Wilson
First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
‐‐ Bjarne Stroustrup