First Quotes

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.

I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

I love to write. It's my first love.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.