In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.
Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.
I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.
Marry the person who gives you the same feeling you get when you take the very first sip of COFFEE in the morning!
Anticipation tingled in my stomach: the kind of tingle that at first you don’t know if it’s a good tingle or a bad tingle – just a tingle.
While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.
An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
