First Quotes

Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

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.