First Quotes

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

My style has definitely evolved. When I first started out I think I was a little all over the place and the clothes kind of wore me rather than the other way round. But now I'm at the point where I'm comfortable dressing for me, I know what works and what I like.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.

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.