All Quotes

The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?
‐‐ Peter Morgan

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
‐‐ Pearl Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
‐‐ Gamaliel Bailey

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
‐‐ Steve Wozniak

The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence.
‐‐ Martin Rees

The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
‐‐ Charles J. Shields

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
‐‐ Hans Urs von Balthasar

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.
‐‐ Isobelle Carmody

The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor,' he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.
‐‐ Michele Lee

The first audition I went out on was because my father was on an audition for a TV show called the 'Gilmore Girls,' and that kind of snowballed a lot of stuff in my life.
‐‐ Chris Pine

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.
‐‐ Dayo Okeniyi

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.
‐‐ John Updike

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
‐‐ Carlo Ratti

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.
‐‐ Pankaj Patel

The first 'Bad Company' was a kind of reaction to the Vietnam war - or at least a reaction to how Vietnam had entered the cultural life through films and books.
‐‐ Peter Milligan

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.
‐‐ Jeff Lynne

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
‐‐ Noel Redding

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.
‐‐ Phil Klay

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
‐‐ Trevor Nunn

The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.
‐‐ Jason Aaron

The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
‐‐ Larry Bishop

The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.'
‐‐ Lilly Ledbetter

The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
‐‐ Olly Murs

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The first black president will be a politician who is black.
‐‐ Douglas Wilder

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.
‐‐ Stephen Cole

The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'
‐‐ John Niven

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.
‐‐ Nick Flynn

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.
‐‐ Mini Grey

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
‐‐ Huey Newton

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
‐‐ Edward St Aubyn

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'
‐‐ Helen Oyeyemi

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
‐‐ Rachel Gibson

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
‐‐ Buchi Emecheta

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
‐‐ Robert Hass

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
‐‐ Dan DeCarlo

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett

The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt