All Quotes

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
‐‐ Daniel Yergin

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.
‐‐ Gerard Arpey

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
‐‐ Sherwood Boehlert

First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
‐‐ Ibrahim Rugova

First, we would reposition UPI by bringing it into the 21st century with new technology. And second would be to better utilize its assets, like the library and archives, which have terrific value.
‐‐ Leon Charney

First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.
‐‐ Gene Simmons

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.
‐‐ Ginny Brown-Waite

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.
‐‐ Marc Anthony

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
‐‐ Jean Stapleton

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
‐‐ George Burns

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
‐‐ Vinny Testaverde

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
‐‐ Kent Beck

First, you must have entrepreneurs who fully grasp their customers. They understand their product so well because they themselves are customers. The second thing is having an awesome value proposition.
‐‐ Craig Sherman

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
‐‐ Ralph Gibson

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
‐‐ Robert Creeley

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
‐‐ Anna Lindh

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
‐‐ Isabelle Huppert

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
‐‐ Peter Mandelson

Firstly, should we be selling and buying irradiated meat? I think that's up to the consumer, ultimately. But the second point is, this irradiated meat should be clearly and unmistakably labeled as irradiated meat.
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
‐‐ Nigel Mansell

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.
‐‐ Louis Stokes

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
‐‐ Horatio Nelson

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.
‐‐ Lee Myung-bak

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
‐‐ Lars Feld

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.
‐‐ Victor Ponta

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
‐‐ Bob McDonnell

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.
‐‐ Gene Simmons

Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.
‐‐ Brian Sandoval

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

Fish and Wildlife has a significant amount of federal funds for land acquisition, yet it is skimping on management of the lands it already possesses and shortchanging local tax bases.
‐‐ Stephen Fincher

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.
‐‐ Enric Sala

Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
‐‐ Andre Gide

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Fish oil is a great protein for your hair.
‐‐ Molly Sims

Fish recognize a bad leader.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
‐‐ Pericles

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
‐‐ Don Marquis

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
‐‐ Mariano Rivera

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
‐‐ Dave Barry

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover