Firsts Quotes - Page 338

Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.

The way that I approach helping is to first make sure that I understand.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

I believe my speed begins when I round first base.

One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

French was my first language.

Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.

The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.