Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Barthelme

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

Douglas Adams

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Dorothy Day

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

Don Henley

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

Colley Cibber

Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.

Derek Magyar

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

Deepak Chopra

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

Annika Sorenstam

On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."

Amy Carmichael

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.

Anthony Edwards

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

Anthony de Mello

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

Angela Davis

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

Angela Davis

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Anne Rice

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

Anna Freud

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

D. H. Lawrence

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

Crystal Gayle

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Dan Brown

Act first, explain later.

David Bailey

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

David Bailey

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

Daryl Hannah

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

Davy Crockett

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

Coretta Scott King

Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.

Coretta Scott King

nonviolence first changes the individual.

Confucius

Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

Daniel Woodrell

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

Andre Rieu

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

Andrea Arnold

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

Amelie Nothomb

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Andy Murray

I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then. So I do have shares in my pension but I have tended to invest in specific projects that include property and private companies that have been very well researched by my advisers.