All Quotes

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

The first year I lived in New York, I tried a different burger every week to find my favorite burger in New York.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.
‐‐ Graeme Le Saux

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.
‐‐ Shawn Mendes

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.
‐‐ Michael Tilson Thomas

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'
‐‐ Robert Wilson

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.
‐‐ David Hyde Pierce

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

The first year of the Boot Ride was an amazing experience. Seeing people come out from all over, ride and, most importantly, put on their boots, was an inspiration.
‐‐ Theo Rossi

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
‐‐ Bobby Scott

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
‐‐ Rob Corddry

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.
‐‐ James MacArthur

The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.
‐‐ Gelsey Kirkland

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.
‐‐ Gerry Beckley

The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.
‐‐ Shirin Neshat

The first years of my life were spent in a roller disco in the early '80s called Flipper's. It was a real riotous, incredible time. I am slightly obsessed with the place.
‐‐ Liberty Ross

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
‐‐ Michael Moore

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.
‐‐ Rick Barry

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
‐‐ Manu Bennett

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
‐‐ Harold S. Geneen

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
‐‐ David Frum

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
‐‐ Andy Taylor

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
‐‐ Bruce Barton

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.
‐‐ James Hansen

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
‐‐ Otto Weininger

The flack I got for 'Saw' is why I wanted to direct 'Insidious 2.'
‐‐ James Wan

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
‐‐ Bill Shuster

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
‐‐ Alan Keyes

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
‐‐ Ira Glass

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
‐‐ Ken Burns

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
‐‐ Robert Schumann

The flapper has charm, good looks, good clothes, intellect and a healthy point of view.
‐‐ Colleen Moore

The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
‐‐ Ira Glass

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
‐‐ Chantal Kreviazuk

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

The flavour of something fresh out of the ground is 10 times better than something that's been flown halfway across the world.
‐‐ Sheherazade Goldsmith

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives.
‐‐ Steven Weber

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
‐‐ Harry A. Blackmun

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.
‐‐ David Morrell

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.
‐‐ Nas

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
‐‐ Barbara Tuchman

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
‐‐ Stephane Mallarme

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins