I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn’t particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were. – Sally Quinn
When we have ‘second thoughts’ about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings. – Sydney J. Harris
It probably wasn’t until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival. – Trent Reznor
I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books. – Scott Aukerman
I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first. – Sara Rue
The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn’t a scary movie. I feel like it was ‘Dennis the Menace’ or something. – Wyatt Russell
I’m an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I’ve also done sitcoms, I’ve done stage. – Wayne Brady
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn’t write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. – Thom Gunn
For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there’s a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That’s how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard. – Shawn Wayans
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days… demonstrated that core character over and over again. – Ted Baillieu
I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of ‘Watchmen,’ his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse. – Susanna Clarke
In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn’t believe them at first. – Tim Cope
The first thing you have to do is make sure you’re still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more. – Tony Dungy
It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first. – Townsend Harris
I’m not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I’ve had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the ’70s. There was pretty much nothing in the ’80s, ’90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium. – Todd Rundgren
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. – Sanjeev Bhaskar
When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have – and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap. – Victoria Strauss
When you first come into Parliament, it’s a daunting place because you feel you’ve so much to learn. Once you’ve been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost. – Theresa May
On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second. – Stephen Kinzer
When the ‘greats of all-time’ put out their first albums, it wasn’t a thousand features on it. And I’m one of the greats in my eyes. – Tory Lanez
The first true antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our department in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was soon crystallized, and its chemical and biological properties were established. – Selman Waksman
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. – Tony Buzan
