First Quotes

I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

I can't even remember the first time I started singing.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Yeah, I mean I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's like an action flick with a great director then it's like 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director. I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.