First Quotes
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Patrick Marber
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
Aaron Paul
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
Sally Quinn
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
Caitlin Kittredge
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
Omari Hardwick
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Pablo Casals
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
Vikas Swarup
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
Taylor Swift
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I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
Barry Sanders
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
Taylor Dayne
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
C. L. R. James
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Feist
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
Barbara Kingsolver
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First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
Karrie Webb
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P. D. James
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. Scott Berg
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The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
Gail Sheehy
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I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
Eden Robinson
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I always put my boxing first.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
Aaron Swartz