First Quotes
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The last thing you would want is to have people housed in shelters, or later in trailers and mobile homes that would be the first things you have to evacuate in the event of another hurricane
Craig Fugate -
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman
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There is no doing in the world without being first.
Oprah Winfrey -
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.
Philip James Bailey -
What should be shrunken must first be stretched.
Lao Tzu -
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac -
When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
Willard Wigan
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
Alan Cumming -
Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'
Judge Reinhold -
As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.
Ozzie Smith -
La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.
Blaise Pascal -
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
Oscar Wilde -
She skated really, really well. The two triple-triples made for a really strong program. She deserved to be first.
Sasha Cohen
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
Soren Kierkegaard -
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand?
Conn Iggulden -
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish.
Tacitus -
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Her face, at first…just ghostly Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Keith Reid Procol Harum -
When we first started touring after the release of 'On Through the Night', a lot of people kept calling us a 'punk' band. Obviously they never saw us. Evidently, a paper would assign a writer to cover the show, and the guy would unload his ticket for a few quid, go home and write the review anyway. They all called us 'punk,' because the name sounded that way.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
I always wanted to have a scenario where the guy didn't have my number, but I had his. What if women make the first move, send the first message? And if they don't, the match disappears after 24 hours, like in Cinderella, the pumpkin and the carriage? It'd be symbolic of a Sadie Hawkins dance - going after it, girls ask first.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
Nancy Mitford