All Quotes

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.
‐‐ Michael Vick

The first day of 'Bling Ring,' I was so nervous and freaking out. I'm a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn't predict what would happen.
‐‐ Katie Chang

The first day of shooting I walk up to Christopher Walken, and I said, Should I call you Mr. Walken or Chris? He goes, 'Call me Flash.'
‐‐ Michael Rosenbaum

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
‐‐ Henry Van Dyke

The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year.
‐‐ Kyle Schmid

The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.
‐‐ Jenny Shipley

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
‐‐ I. M. Pei

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
‐‐ Penelope Spheeris

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.
‐‐ Lily James

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.
‐‐ Casey Affleck

The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.
‐‐ Jill McCorkle

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.
‐‐ Jonathan Dee

The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
‐‐ Jonathan Dee

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
‐‐ Ed Speleers

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
‐‐ Anacharsis

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
‐‐ Eli Broad

The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it into a television show. The second dumb idea, when you do it and it works, was to throw everything out and start again.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
‐‐ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
‐‐ Andre Malraux

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
‐‐ Herbert Bayard Swope

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
‐‐ Abbie Hoffman

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The first duty of love is to listen.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
‐‐ Alexis Carrel

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
‐‐ Charles Buxton

The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.
‐‐ John Entwistle

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.
‐‐ Cristela Alonzo

The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.
‐‐ Alison Weir

The first encounter was when the Vikings came across 10 Indians taking naps under their overturned canoes - and the Vikings killed them. That did not set up a very good mutual relationship.
‐‐ Russell Freedman

The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'
‐‐ Joelle Carter

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
‐‐ Lascelles Abercrombie

The first episodes I actually read for 'Downton,' Sybil was really intimidated and hadn't come into her own. So it's only in Series Two that she's become so headstrong. In general, I find it exciting to play strong, female roles because they're shocking.
‐‐ Jessica Brown Findlay

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
‐‐ John Gunther

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab