First Quotes

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices. When I first started playing around with my look, it was more of a Dita Von Teese pinup thing. Dita's really dedicated.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.