First Quotes

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

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.