First Quotes
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When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
Idries Shah
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I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album; I loved her.
Sara Sampaio
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I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.
Okky Madasari
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When I first got asked to run for the state Senate, I was asked by a number of legislators I had worked with, and I thanked them and declined.
Maggie Hassan
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My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
Dan Hill
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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
Fidel Castro
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When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
Daniel Barenboim
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
Patrick Modiano
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The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
Lao Tzu
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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
Rana el Kaliouby
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When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
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Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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My Levis split and my bollocks fell out. I had no idea at first.
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
Frances Beinecke
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You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
Daniel Barenboim
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We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin can't all be the first Ash!
Ashley Giles
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My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
Walt Mossberg
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We're very excited . . . I'm flying up in a few days to Rochester. We're doing a few production rehearsals up there for a few days and then we kick off the tour on the first. So it's an exciting time for the Priest.
Richie Faulkner Judas Priest
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
Carlos Ghosn