First Quotes

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.