I’m not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album. – Justin Timberlake
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. – Joan Didion
I’m a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place. – John Thune
First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little. – Jamie Dimon
‘Legends Walking’ was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience. – Jane Lindskold
Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they’ve played their first game! – Jose Mourinho
I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them. – Joe Biden
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal. – Irwin Shaw
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. – John Podhoretz
I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, ‘When Nietzsche Wept,’ has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn’t create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed. – Irvin D. Yalom
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. – James Payn
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. – H. L. Mencken
I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence. – Joanna Lumley
Wolfgang Tillman’s stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art. – Jerry Saltz
I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, ’cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people’s voices. – Idris Elba
Watching ‘Girls,’ it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters. – Jill Soloway
