I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life. - Karen Allen
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. - Doc Watson
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. - Honore De Balzac
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. - Isadora Duncan
I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team. - Shia LaBeouf
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. - Taylor Dayne
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. - John Ruskin
No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. - Joe Slovo
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. - Ben Lindsey
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. - Neil Armstrong
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?' - Malin Akerman
When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean. - Catherine Zeta-Jones
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. - Vinton Cerf
Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it. - Peter Jennings
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. - Pierre Schaeffer
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster. - Alistair Cooke
But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too. - Gavin MacLeod
Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. - Patty Murray
Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase. - Luis Gutierrez
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! - Alfred A. Montapert
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego. - Roseanne Barr
I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947. - George Shearing
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history. - Mark McGwire
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it. - Cy Coleman
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind. - Malcolm De Chazal
I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart. - Diana Ross
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all. - Randal Kleiser