First Quotes
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The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.
Nancy Roman
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I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
Tamara Tunie
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The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.
Ralph Kiner
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
Sally Field
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
Park Chan-wook
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
Parker Harris
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The first time I met Michael, we saw each other on a TV show.
Rick Dees
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After the first million, money isn't important.
Larry Flynt
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
Dana Stabenow
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Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
Jack Zipes
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I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
Edmund Phelps
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My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
F. Sionil Jose
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
Carine Roitfeld
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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
Patricia Cornwell
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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
Kat Graham
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I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
Patricia Clarkson
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When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?
Yves Montand
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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen
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It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.
Nathan Adrian