Firsts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
-- Angela Ahrendts -
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
-- Angela Bassett -
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
-- Angela Davis -
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
-- Angela Davis -
Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!
-- Angie Martinez -
Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
-- Angus Young -
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
-- Anita Baker -
If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
-- Anita Diament -
Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.
-- Anita Moorjani -
Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.
-- Anita Shreve -
For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.
-- Ann Aguirre -
I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
-- Ann Brashares -
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.
-- Ann Coulter -
I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate.
-- Ann Coulter -
It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.
-- Ann Dowd -
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
-- Ann Voskamp -
I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.
-- Anna Camp -
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
If God exists, Id be the first to be told.
-- Anna de Noailles -
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.
-- Anna Faris -
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
-- Anna Freud -
The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.
-- Anna Torv -
Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.
-- Anne Alexander -
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
-- Anne Frank -
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
-- Anne Lamott -
Every moment must be first known and then savored.
-- Anne Rice -
Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?
-- Anne Stuart -
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.
-- Annie Besant -
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
-- Annie Dillard -
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
-- Annie Parisse -
On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."
-- Annika Sorenstam -
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.
-- Ansen Dibell -
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
-- Anthea Turner -
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury -
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
-- Anthony Doerr -
No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,†browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
-- Anthony Lane -
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
-- Antisthenes -
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
-- Anton Chekhov -
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.
-- Anton Chekhov -
For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.
-- Anton Corbijn -
When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake―and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.
-- Antoni Tapies -
As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!
-- Antonia Fraser -
I have to be a father first and a husband first.
-- Antonio Davis -
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
-- Antonio Gaudi -
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
-- Antonio Gaudi -
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
-- Antonio Machado -
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
-- Antonio Porchia -
Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.
-- Antonis Samaras -
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
-- Antony Beevor -
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,
-- Antony Flew -
What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
-- Antony Sher -
First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.
-- Anuj -
A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.
-- Anuj -
I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.
-- Anupam Kher -
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.
-- Anya Seton -
My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.
-- Apolo Ohno -
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
-- Arabella Weir -
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery -
Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.
-- Ari Graynor -
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
-- Ariana Franklin -
The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.
-- Arianna Huffington -
Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.
-- Ariel Sharon -
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
-- Aristotle -
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
-- Aristotle -
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
-- Aristotle -
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
-- Aristotle -
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
-- Aristotle -
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
-- Aristotle -
Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
-- Aristotle -
Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
-- Aristotle -
Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.
-- Armand Hammer -
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.
-- Armie Hammer -
I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
-- Arnold Bennett -
If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach.
-- Arnold Ehret -
The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.
-- Arnold Jacobs -
If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.
-- Arnold Sommerfeld -
Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.
-- Arnold Sommerfeld -
The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.
-- Arnon Grunberg -
First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.
-- Aron Ralston -
I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.
-- Arrigo Sacchi -
To achieve great things you have first to believe it.
-- Arsene Wenger