First Quotes

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.