First Quotes
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
Irving Kirsch
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First, you have to finish.
Michael Schumacher
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
Padgett Powell
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
Nathan Myhrvold
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
Owen Arthur
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The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Cardinal Richelieu
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
Lana Del Rey
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
Lara Giddings
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I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
Kat Graham
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
Pankaj Mishra
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
Bashar al-Assad
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Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.
Florynce Kennedy
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
Barry Sonnenfeld
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
Parker Posey
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
Becca Fitzpatrick
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
Tammy Baldwin
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
Tate Donovan
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
Naomi Campbell
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I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
Bart Stupak