All Quotes

The first thing I remember when I moved to a school in the suburbs was, 'My gosh, all these books!' The classroom and school had a library; I'd never seen so many books in my life! It was something we didn't have in the township.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.'' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.
‐‐ Geneva Carr

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.
‐‐ Gustav Heinemann

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
‐‐ Eli Broad

The first thing I tell clients is get off the couch! Just start making some small lifestyle changes such as walking to work instead of driving or taking the stairs instead of the lift. The small things you can change all add up.
‐‐ Jessie Pavelka

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
‐‐ Keith Thibodeaux

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.
‐‐ Josh Bowman

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham

The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
‐‐ Vanessa Ferlito

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
‐‐ Tim Ferriss

The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them.
‐‐ Michael Gove

The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.
‐‐ Billy Higgins

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer

The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.
‐‐ Shane Warne

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
‐‐ Peggy Fleming

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
‐‐ Dana Stabenow

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
‐‐ Orson Welles

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
‐‐ Gail Simmons

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
‐‐ Louis Kahn

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.
‐‐ Jenna Jameson

The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
‐‐ Frank Black

The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses, compassionate bears, hair that didn't move in a stiff wind, and the constant threat of nuclear war.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
‐‐ Nicholas Meyer

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
‐‐ Fred Allen

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.
‐‐ Rick Warren

The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
‐‐ Bob Schaffer

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
‐‐ Donald Trump

The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
‐‐ Pablo Casals

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.
‐‐ Michael Polanyi

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.
‐‐ Robert D. Kaplan