First Quotes

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

I was hit for the first time before I was married.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.