Best firsts & next Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.”

World Trying Firsts War Bigs Next Events Materials England Historical Musical Strikes War Of The Worlds Documentaries First World War Historical Events

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Character Stories Wanted Next Strong Novel Female Decided Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.”

Thinking Firsts Littles Different Choices Next Projects First Time Careful Intense Not Sure

Author:Kristanna Loken

“When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.”

Thinking Firsts Film Next Given Watches Scene Moved Etc

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.”

Want Firsts Hands Next President Kings Gun Killing Capitalist

Author:Giuseppe Zangara

“I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.”

People Firsts School Purpose Next Conditions Foundation Democratic Missions Hospitals Republic Continents Improving Congo African Continent Democratic Republic Living Conditions

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn't know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn't stop crying.”

Knows Firsts Next Doors Cry New York Mom First Time Window Caught Scared My Mom Grades Caught Up Subway I Love New York

Author:Skylar Grey

“My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.”

Firsts Jobs Next Vote Next Time Thankfulness Saying Thank You

Author:Barack Obama

“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.”

“I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Lasts Young Next Virtue Growing Youth Generous Young Man Sentiments Old Man Acquaintance Growing Old

Author:Samuel Johnson

“There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.”

Men Want Mind Firsts Long Two Hard Use Next Hard Work Two Things Good Times Worthwhile I Want You Going To Work Having A Good Time Sour Make Up Your Mind

Book:A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.”

Should Firsts Believe School Next Plans Balance Solutions Gender Decades Engineering

Author:Patrick Awuah, Jr.

“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.”

Knows Firsts Littles Faces Certain Next Term Loses Challenges Amount Congress Campaigns Administration Motive Suspects Voters Identification

Author:Roy Blunt

“The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.”

Giving Firsts Lasts Spirit Next Church Liberty Inspire Good Man Impart Spirit Of God Present Time God First

Book:The Secret of Success in the Christian Life

Source: The Secret of Success in the Christian Life

“The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.”

Firsts Next Class Gone Masters One Day Dinner Servant Manifestation Serving Next Day Disappearance Classless Society

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Back in '96, I was on "The Price Is Right" pointing at refrigerators, and "Extra," the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!”

People Knows Firsts Said Shows America Next Tvs Internet Entertainment Extras Online Entity Tv Shows Next Day Pointing Refrigerators Downloads

Author:Cindy Margolis

“I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars. For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe. I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.”

“The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.”

Thinking World Want Firsts Stills Would Be Desire Next Steps This World Harder Practicals Next Steps

Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

“I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!”

Thinking Want Firsts Kids Able Remember Next Drawing Grades

Author:Dan Povenmire

“As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.”

Firsts Said Ends Stories Bigs Next Coincidence Bricks Schism

Author:Tom Brevoort

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

Firsts Believe Children Next Answers Happened Function Narrative Historian Matured

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like God. And it may well be true, for the soul at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. For this reason the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived.”

Giving Firsts Wells May Ideas Soul Reason Might Next Father Teach Divine Son Authority Highest Angel Being True Coming Out

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.”

Firsts Art Made Next Fashion One Day Wings Pale Pathetic Puppets Libertine

Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

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