Quotes of: First-world Keyword

It may be small comfort, but I believe Rafe doesn't want to kill you." A light laugh escaped her lips. "Actually, that is a substantial comfort.

Bite at First Sight

Guys are a lot like kitchen floors – lay ‘em right the first time and you can walk all over them for years.

Baby, I'm Yours

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

Caprice Bourret

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

Marion Bartoli

Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most fir...

Sam Rockwell

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

Laura Schlessinger

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz

'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.

James Fenton

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Europe has achieved peaceful political union for the first time ever: They're using this unprecedented state of affairs to harmonize the curvature of bananas.

Accelerando

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.

All the Ways Moosh Failed Me

I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

I had to take the first step for myself.

If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

Because seeing someone’s heart ripped out, presumably for the first time, is something a person should accept naturally, like finding out there’s no Santa Clause.

Reaper

I wouldn't want to get you into trouble." Gordon hesitated still... Maddie laughed carelessly. "Wouldn't be the first time. Probably wouldn't be the last.

The Royal Ranger

The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’t work out the first time.

The Summer of Skinny Dipping

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Shoeless Joe

When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands