First Quotes

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.

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

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.