All Quotes

The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.
‐‐ Steven Burd

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, 'Oh well, she works.'
‐‐ Liana Liberato

The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.'
‐‐ Charlie Puth

The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.
‐‐ Philippe Falardeau

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.
‐‐ Betty Hill

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'
‐‐ Ariel Gore

The first pet I remember was a cat called Baby. She would sleep with me, and I could call her from anywhere, and she would come running.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.
‐‐ Amal Clooney

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.
‐‐ James Franco

The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!
‐‐ Kelley Armstrong

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
‐‐ Van Morrison

The first place I gain weight is in my rear end. I love my butt, but I have a tendency to get saddlebags there, so I need to watch it.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
‐‐ Major Owens

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
‐‐ Alan Shepard

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.
‐‐ John Mahoney

The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.
‐‐ Francois Arnaud

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
‐‐ Marguerite Young

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas

The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.
‐‐ Martina Hingis

The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
‐‐ Lactantius

The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, 'Where do humans lie?' Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there's a reasonable chance they might be clone-able.
‐‐ John Gurdon

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
‐‐ Bobby Seale

The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
‐‐ Ted Naifeh

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
‐‐ John McCain

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
‐‐ Rene Descartes

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
‐‐ Pauline Kael

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

The first president I met was L. B. J.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
‐‐ Christian Morgenstern

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.
‐‐ David D. Burns

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
‐‐ Stan Musial

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
‐‐ Robert Collier

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
‐‐ David Korten

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
‐‐ George Gilder

The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
‐‐ Rob Lowe