Quotes of: First Keyword

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Winston Churchill

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

W.C. Fields

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

Whitney Houston

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

Wang Jianlin

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

Wally Lamb

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

Wendell Phillips

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

Yelawolf

I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

Zeresenay Alemseged

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

Zadie Smith

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

Anselm Kiefer

When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

Aaron Paul

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

Brent Runyon

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

Claire McCaskill

I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.

James Bernard Frost

The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.

James Lipton

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

John Lasseter

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

James Nesbitt

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

Leah Remini

'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.

Lisa Unger

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Mary Oliver

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Meg Whitman