All Quotes

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
‐‐ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.
‐‐ John Fleming

The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.
‐‐ Michael Schumacher

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.
‐‐ Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.
‐‐ Mickey Rivers

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.
‐‐ Stefano Langone

The first thing you have to do is to sequence the Neanderthal genome, and that has actually been done. The next step would be to chop this genome up into, say, 10,000 chunks and then... assemble all the chunks in a human stem cell, which would enable you to finally create a Neanderthal clone.
‐‐ George M. Church

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.
‐‐ John Hurt

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
‐‐ Vikas Swarup

The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.
‐‐ Dean Wareham

The first thing you learn in a martial art sport is discipline, and you are not allowed to use it at home.
‐‐ Caroline Marton

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.
‐‐ Alex Tabarrok

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.
‐‐ Rob Walton

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.
‐‐ Richard Morris Hunt

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.
‐‐ Lori Petty

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.
‐‐ Mink Stole

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience.
‐‐ James Durbin

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.
‐‐ Steve-O

The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.
‐‐ Richard Chizmar

The first three years, I don't think I would leave my hotel room outside of tennis, because I was like, 'I got to rest, I got to rest.' It was like sort of a paranoia to do everything as best as I can.
‐‐ Milos Raonic

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
‐‐ Nancy Astor

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
‐‐ Olivier Martinez

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.
‐‐ Bridgette Wilson

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.
‐‐ Marion Bartoli

The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy.
‐‐ Liu Wen

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
‐‐ Michael Patrick King

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
‐‐ Jean-Bertrand Aristide

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
‐‐ Angela Bassett

The first time I almost died was surfing: I got hit on the head with a board. I went under and started swimming until I hit the bottom of the ocean. I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going the wrong way. Do I have enough air to get back up?' If you're a surfer, you know the feeling.
‐‐ Robert David Hall

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
‐‐ Martin Bashir

The first time I came to California was in January 2013, when I auditioned for 'Vampire Academy.'
‐‐ Lucy Fry

The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.
‐‐ Gina McKee

The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
‐‐ Pierre Boulez

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
‐‐ Bruce Coville

The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

The first time I dedicated myself to resurrecting and preserving somebody's memories was with my great-uncle. I knew he was going to die in the next few years, and I had grown up listening to all his stories about people who had been trapped or chased by the Nazis. I began to record them.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage. Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.
‐‐ Judy Gold

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman