Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more a...
The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my teens. I did my first record, which was an old standard called 'My Mother's Eyes.' It was the old Georgie Jessel theme. I heard it on local radio out...
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed ...
Neil: For the first time in my whole life, I know what I wanna do! And for the first time, I'm gonna do it! Whether my father wants me to or not! Carpe diem!
Hamlet: What man dost thou dig it for? First Gravedigger: For no man sir. Hamlet: For what woman then? First Gravedigger: For none neither. Hamlet: *Who* is to be buried here? First Gravedigger: One that was a woman sir, but rest her soul, she's dead...
Erik Lehnsherr: [wields an inscribed Nazi dagger] "Blood and Honor" - which would you care to shed first? 1st German: We were under orders... Erik Lehnsherr: Blood it is! [stabs the German]
When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever...
What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there'...
and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
The first time is always the hardest
Everything transitory is but an image.
Curiosity was getting the better of me.
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.
I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
