“Celine Dion is one of my heroes. The first song I learned was "My Heart Will Go On." And we sang "Because You Loved Me" for my mom which was a huge deal for me.” FirstsHeartSongDealsHugeMomGoes OnHeroMy HeartMy MomMy HeroCeline Author:Charice Pempengco
“I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.” FirstsBodyRunningHoursSawsGoes OnJournalistThrowingColourfulThrowing Up Author:Terry Pratchett
“Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.” MenWritingFirstsPersonsIdeasGoes OnNo IdeaFirst Person Author:Janet Evanovich
“It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.” YearsFirstsBookBigsFatherGamesHouseDifficultWhiteInterestingChildhoodGoes OnHonorLettersRedemptionWhite HouseHuntingPublishingPublishFirst LadyEleanorReconnecting Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.” WorldWritingFirstsFactsThreeSupportFourAirPositionGoes OnRelationCourtInternationalCome UpAgain And AgainShockingFilesFbiColumnsInternational RelationsEntryEntrancesEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsSaidStoriesLaughingTvsGoes OnBoredMaking People LaughSuperstarFunny Story Author:Verka Serduchka
“One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.” FirstsStatesOpportunityMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesMissingTvsGoes OnThousandBeatsHundredRaisesDollarsDemocraticBridgesSenate Author:Barbara Mikulski
“I want to be remembered for the good things - for winning the Champions League, for winning five of the first six trophies at Barcelona. I could win another Champions League and I want to go on making history. It goes back to the feeling of more responsibility at Liverpool. I felt I had to suffer more to not be criticised but here the responsibility falls on others too and I can enjoy it more.” WantFirstsI CanFeelingsSufferingFallWinningFeltEnjoyResponsibilityFiveGoes OnSixGood ThingsRememberedLeagueChampionTrophiesLiverpoolBarcelonaChampions LeagueMaking History Author:Luis Suarez
“In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsHeartFactsAbleFeltCausesAnimalEffectsGoes OnDiseaseEatingCancerFactorsMeatDietsEtcMeant To BeContributingDiabetesHeart DiseaseMeat EatingOsteoporosis Author:Sharon Gannon
“We want this - and I - we hope that right when they come back, that the Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter Act which would correct the Supreme Court decision that was just recent that essentially guts wage discrimination law. It's been in place for years. It was gutted by this Roberts Court. We want it to be reversed by legislation. We hope that Congress passes it and that is on the desk for [Barack] Obama to sign as one of his first acts once he's sworn in. So it - I could go on, we have quite a well-developed list.” WantYearsFirstsWellsLawDecisionGoes OnCourtCongressListsSupremeDiscriminationBarackGutsDesksLegislationSupreme CourtCourt Decision Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Most people, originally when Google Earth first came out in 2005, they thought, well, what can I do with it? I can figure out where to go on vacation, or I can look at my neighbor's backyard from space. But the point is, you can do so much more.” PeopleFirstsWellsLooksI CanEarthCan DoSpaceFiguresGoes OnNeighborVacationGoogleBackyardsGoogle Earth Author:Rebecca Moore
“First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.” PeopleWayFirstsDiesLeftHappenedGoes OnSucceedFirst TimeLaborFruitBridgesUnconsciousBloodyBeatenArrestedConcussions Author:John Lewis
“I don't want to recover from writing this book [The Onion]. I feel very poised. I feel like I'm with my mother for the first time ever. I feel like I've confronted her, and the confrontation goes on.” WantFeelsWritingFirstsBookMotherGoes OnFirst TimeConfrontationOnions Author:James Ellroy
“'Cause I do so much homework I'm good to go on the first take; I don't want to rehearse. I like the element of what's unpredictable of that first take and nobody knows what's going to happen, and I'm a big fan of that.” KnowsWantFirstsBigsHappensCausesFansGoes OnElementsUnpredictableHomeworkNobody Knows Author:Michael Fassbender
“If one of you sees, sometime, something unedifying and so much as goes on to pass it on and put it into the heart of another brother, in doing so you not only harm yourself but you harm your brother by putting one more little bit of knavery into his heart. Even if that brother has his mind set on prayer or some other noble activity, and the first arrives and furnishes him with something to prate about, he not only impedes what he ought to be doing, but brings a temptation on him. There is nothing graver or more deadly than this doing harm, not only to himself but also to his neighbor.” IfsMindFirstsHeartLittlesChristianBitsPrayerBrotherGoes OnOughtActivityLittle BitHarmNobleNeighborTemptationOrthodoxOrthodox ChristianYour BrotherMind SetKnavery Author:Dorotheus of Gaza
“When you go on a movie set, there used to be one woman: script supervisor. Now they were in all capacities in addition to heading studios. So that's the biggest change of all from the early '50s, when I first started.” FirstsUsedGoes OnCapacityScriptsStudiosUsed To BeHeadingsOne WomanMovie SetsSupervisors Author:Robert Vaughn
“First time I ever took acid and got really high, as I was walking around I thought "Gee. The world looked like this when I was a little kid." I remember seeing the sparkling reality and three-dimensionality of things. Sort of like a renewal, every time you do it is a renewal, it is a renewal. It keeps your head young. It lets you keep that being able to accept the new thing just as easily as a kid would. Most people get all this stuff in their head like an old library, no room for the new volume to go on the shelves.” PeopleWorldFirstsLittlesRealityKidsAbleRememberYoungThreeStuffRoomsAcceptingSeeingGoes OnWalkingFirst TimeLibraryNew ThingsVolumeShelvesLittle KidRenewalAcidSparkling Author:Owsley Stanley
“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.” KnowsWritingTryingFirstsStillsBookStoriesLightHappensNextMorningWrittenGoes OnWarmEvery MorningNext DayJuice Author:Ernest Hemingway
“I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.” FirstsLastsFilmGoes OnPleaseQuittingPlease Me Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around with fiction, that I had to find a language and it was not in existance at the time. You have put it very well - it wasn't to be taken for granted. You had to go on and search until you found a way through the conversation of English and Igbo. The two languages stuck into each other and tried to find a way to express through one, the medium of the thoughts. That's a very exciting thing to do, a very difficult thing to do.” ThinkingWayMindFirstsWellsTwoPlayFoundLanguageDifficultFictionTakenClearGoes OnConversationExcitingStuckMediumsGrantedThings To DoDifficult ThingsTaken For GrantedExciting Things Author:Chinua Achebe
“Today, we're struggling a lot, both men and women, with finding out what we're supposed to be. Like when you go on a first date, I always find it incredibly difficult to figure out whether I should reach for the check or not. I don't want to presume anything, but I don't want to be a ball-buster. A lot of rules are thrown up into the air and I think that maybe more than anything, we're confused.” ThinkingMenWantShouldFirstsTodayDifficultStruggleAirFiguresGoes OnFindingsMen And WomenBallsChecksSupposed To BeConfusedThrownFirst DateBusters Author:Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
“I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!” WantFirstsEndsNew YorkGoes OnBillsPlantI RealizedIronButterflyZeppelinsDenver Author:Robert Plant
“I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.” FirstsLittlesI CanLightLinesAnimalFocusGoes OnRedCamerasRingsConcentrationBellsNailsRed LightsFocus And Concentration Author:Mickey Rourke
“School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.” FirstsSchoolGoes OnGenderConformKindergartenConformistPreschool Author:Dan Savage
“I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.” YearsFirstsWholeGirlNamesFantasyHeardStageGoes OnGreenAlbumsCovered Author:Florence Welch
“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” IfsInspirationalFirstsBookEndsStoriesLastsGoes OnPagesInsperationalCheer Up Author:Cornelia Funke