If somebody says ‘singer-songwriter’ to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me. – Zachary Levi
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. – William F. Buckley, Jr.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. – Thomas Fuller
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights. – Uwe Boll
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched. – Soulja Boy
I don’t go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we’ve already practiced. – Wally Schirra
To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers’ needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results. – Sylvia Mathews Burwell
So that’s when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that’s when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental. – Sydney Brenner
I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books. – Tracy K. Smith
London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747. – Tom Parker Bowles
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on ‘Pretty Hate Machine,’ came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form. – Trent Reznor
One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don’t be the first guy through the door because you’re going to get all the arrows. – Stephen Bannon
You can’t write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works. – Wayne Grady
I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box. – Waite Hoyt
The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days’ march. – William Henry Ashley
I haven’t yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. – William Westmoreland
I’ve always been a geek, so I’ve always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do. – Tatiana de Rosnay
I chose to publish the first ‘Shopaholic’ book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits. – Sophie Kinsella
I started doing independent films. My first one was ‘Miss Bala,’ which was very well-received at film festivals. – Stephanie Sigman
