Top 1200 First One Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

This is the first time a newly inaugurated president has had any impact on a current budget." What that means is that normally when a president's inaugurated in January, the budget for the first calendar year of his term or the first nine months is already done. So from January 21st all the way 'til October when the new budget's done, the president has to deal with the previous Congress' budget and has nothing to say about it. What they're saying is that Donald Trump has had a record-breaking, never-before-seen thing by having an impact on the budget in his first year.

We could perform in space or be the first band to play moon, but we want to be the first 'Star Wars' band.

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

If at first you don't succeed, try management. Indecision is the key to flexibility. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

It's like the first man to go to the moon, I will be the first man to run under two hours, this is crucial.

The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve breakfast after 12 o'clock."

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

I love first chances, but unfortunately, first chances don't always work out for everyone, and I'm a perfect example of that.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

First thing is first and let me be clear: I stand with the Black community. Black Lives Matter. There is no room in this world for racism. Period.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.

I did my first film Junglee and it became a hit. That film was the first one to bring the real colour on the big screen, which was Eastmancolor.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

In my house, it's family first - but I was spending most of my time at the church. So, I was saying 'family first,' but I wasn't showing that. I didn't like the message that sent my daughter.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.

We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.

The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

I've always felt like I'm Asia: I'm the first me and I'm the first Asia that's going to walk into the room, and I'm here to change the game. That's part of who I am.

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

The satellite and digital space is where the audience for 'Cabaret' lies: a discerning lot who don't rush to the cinema hall on the first day, first show, and prefer instead to consume their entertainment at their time and comfort.

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

One of the most brilliant parts of being a first-time founder is that you experience everything for the first time. It never gets old.

If there's a moment on the record to reach people where they are, it's 'Even If'. We're ministers first. We're trying to reach the hurting first. This song wrecked us.

I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

I am totally for first timers. I always hear them seriously. I have done so many films with first timers, and I've never regretted it.

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.

At the age of 16, when I had my first traning session with the first-team squad, I came into the cabin and there stood Ribery and he said: 'Come here, sit down. Take the locker beside me.'

First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.