There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands. We did the Captain and Tennille as well, but it ended up being about 50-50. – Toni Tennille
Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works. – Taylor Swift
But when our first album came out, I didn’t think it was going to sell a lot of records. – Stephan Jenkins
To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time. – Wolfgang Ketterle
It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy… but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. – William Lamb Melbourne
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought. – Samuel Alexander
Viacom’s results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004. – Sumner Redstone
The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn’t come up with the idea first. – Tom Metzger
I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn’t higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance. – Wolfgang Schauble
I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, ’cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. – William Scranton
You have this special connection with someone if you’re their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is. – Shaun Cassidy
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist’s psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place. – Shea Hembrey
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection. – Samuel Richardson
My first show was called ‘I Know I’ve Been Changed’ in ’92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, ‘What is this about?’ – Tyler Perry
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff. – Terry Pratchett
It wasn’t until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I’m just behind the jokes. – Wanda Sykes
Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60’s with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays. – Terry Riley
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
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. – Tobias Wolff
When I first starting conceiving series like ‘Courtney,’ ‘Polly,’ ‘How Loathsome,’ etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series. – Ted Naifeh
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew. – Thom Gunn
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. – Wilfred Burchett
