First Quotes
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
Adam Hochschild -
Everything I do now is a first.
Hailee Steinfeld
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Pat Barker -
Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
W. S. Merwin -
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 -
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
Barbara Kingsolver -
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
Dan Aykroyd -
There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
Kate Smith
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At first all we wanted to do was be successful in our home town.
Rick Savage Def Leppard -
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Feist -
I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
Candace Kita -
I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
Laura Robson -
My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
Harold Pinter -
Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
Beau Bridges
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. Scott Berg -
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
Patrick Murray -
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall -
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King -
My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
Jaclyn Smith
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
Samuel P. Huntington -
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza -
'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
Aaron Tveit -
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