First Quotes

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

I'm in Alabama. First thing I want to say is Roll Tide! I was at the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them!

People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices. When I first started playing around with my look, it was more of a Dita Von Teese pinup thing. Dita's really dedicated.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.