Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lillie Langtry

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Larry Wall

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

Paul Merton

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

Oscar Wilde

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

Itzhak Perlman

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

Irvin D. Yalom

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

Ina Garten

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

Gloria Swanson

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

Gloria Steinem

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

J. K. Rowling

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

J. K. Rowling

I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.

J. K. Rowling

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

Nathan Fillion

There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.

Nancy Pearcey

Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.

Katherine Mansfield

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Karen Walker

The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time.

Ken Hensley

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

Keith Teare

The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.

Kevin Nealon

I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.

Ken Blanchard

Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.

Michael Mandelbaum

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

Ray Bradbury

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

Ray Bradbury

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

Ray Bradbury

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

Rand Paul

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.

Ralph Merkle

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

Ralph Bakshi

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

Sharron Angle

I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly,

Sharron Angle

I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

Sergei Bubka

First do it, then say it.

Sean Durkin

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

Savielly Tartakower

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.