All Quotes

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
‐‐ Isadora Duncan

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
‐‐ Robert Collier

The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
‐‐ Marie Curie

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
‐‐ J. B. Priestley

The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.
‐‐ Melanie Rawn

The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.
‐‐ Madhuri Dixit

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content.
‐‐ Kevin Smith

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.
‐‐ Mario Lemieux

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
‐‐ Ato Boldon

The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
‐‐ Alyssa Milano

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.
‐‐ Jimmy Carr

The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there.
‐‐ Ethan Suplee

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss

The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.
‐‐ Les Claypool

The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.
‐‐ Jake Busey

The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.
‐‐ Neill Blomkamp

The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.
‐‐ Vik Muniz

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.
‐‐ Ryan White

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.
‐‐ Frank Ocean

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
‐‐ Mary Higgins Clark

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
‐‐ June Jordan

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin

The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was 'The Bard's Tale.'
‐‐ Markus Persson

The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.
‐‐ Tony Romo

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
‐‐ Mary Schmich

The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.
‐‐ Steve Jurvetson

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
‐‐ Lou Reed

The first generation of Russian terrorists came out of the '60s counterculture - the 1860s in Russia bearing a striking similarity to the 1960s in the United States, with Russian students growing their hair, following gurus who extolled the 'new man,' and starting communes.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I'm pretty sure the second was a 'Powers' scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
‐‐ Bill Buford

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.
‐‐ Tom T. Hall

The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.
‐‐ Marc Laidlaw

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.
‐‐ June Singer

The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.
‐‐ Marc Guggenheim

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
‐‐ Clarence Darrow

The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.
‐‐ Martin Filler