All Quotes

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
‐‐ C. Day Lewis

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.
‐‐ John W. Thompson

First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.
‐‐ Kate del Castillo

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
‐‐ Pat Roberts

First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
‐‐ Oksana Baiul

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
‐‐ Maria Callas

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
‐‐ Jim Coleman

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.
‐‐ Sonia Rykiel

First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.
‐‐ Joe Namath

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
‐‐ Martin Luther

First, I started taking dance classes, and then I started taking singing lessons. Then my mom put me into a year-round theatre program where I did seven shows.
‐‐ Lilla Crawford

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
‐‐ John Avlon

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.
‐‐ Martin Feldstein

First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.
‐‐ Ellen Muth

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
‐‐ Paris Hilton

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.
‐‐ Jake Johnson

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.
‐‐ Bill Frisell

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
‐‐ Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
‐‐ Hans Frank

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'
‐‐ Edmund White

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.
‐‐ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
‐‐ Claude Chabrol

First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
‐‐ Neil LaBute

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.
‐‐ Nicholson Baker

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.
‐‐ Bill Simmons

First in France, first in Romania - by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine.
‐‐ Nostradamus

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
‐‐ Pierre Schaeffer

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.
‐‐ Marion Barry

First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.
‐‐ James Coburn

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.
‐‐ Alice Waters

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
‐‐ Andre Leon Talley

First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins.
‐‐ Jodi Kantor

First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
‐‐ Denis Healey

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
‐‐ Epictetus

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

'First Light' has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends.
‐‐ Richard Preston

'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done - and science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize.
‐‐ Richard Preston

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
‐‐ Mason Cooley