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“From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.”

Firsts Country Gone Records Stones Western Folks Hip Hop Hips Classic Hops Rolling 80s Rolling Stones Cab Ballads Gershwin Bebop Referencing Country Western

Author:Cat Power

“My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.”

Knows Writing Firsts Real Wanted Jobs Rocks Stones Bunch Journalism Rolling Rock And Roll Rolling Stones Investigative Journalism

Author:Tim Cahill

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

Inspirational Firsts Humans Civilization Stones Anger Insult Founders Insulting Psychoanalysis Comeback

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.”

Firsts Hands Fighting Stones Lays Casts Fighting On

Book:The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)

Source: The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)

“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.”

“Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.”

Firsts Hard Cutting Habit Stones Adamant

Book:Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon

“On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.”

Want Firsts Jobs Sound Levels Situation Support Happened Stones Muscles Sharon American Jobs

Author:Russell Crowe

“A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.”

Firsts President Sin Stones Casts Scar Chamber Censure Watergate Indelible Monica

Author:Bob Menendez

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.”

“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.”

World Way Firsts Earth Night Found Heaven Christ Wonder Creation Garden Stones Empty Thirds Died Graves Evening Dawn Gardener Semblance New Earth Daybreak

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.”

“The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.”

World Firsts Done Lasts Names Rocks Band Stones Wave Pops Rap Metals Punk Rolling Rock And Roll Rolling Stones

Author:Bob Dylan

“They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.”

Should Firsts Lasts Practice Stones Criticism Censure

Book:Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.”

Mind Firsts Reality Building Achievement Stones Details Architect Mentality Bricks

Book:Ambition and Success

Source: Ambition and Success

“The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.”

Firsts Enough Problem Would Be Parent Sides Bears Bed Demand Mountain Solutions Stones Casts Miles Agents Valleys Rip Disruptive

Book:The Cause of an Ice Age

Source: The Cause of an Ice Age

“Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.”

Firsts Atheism Stones Guilt Casts Positive Atheism Traps

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.”

Firsts Real Kids Guy Pay Stones Selling Dumb Shirts Concerts Rolling T Shirt Bucks Cotton Rolling Stones Bootlegging

Author:Kevin Plank

“The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.”

World Firsts Perfect Built Stones Corners Temples Adam Pillars A Perfect World

Book:The poetical works of N.P. Willis

Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis

“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Made Inspiration Would Be Motivation Guy Stones Valleys Autism Genetics Spears Silicon Silicon Valley Aspergers

Author:Temple Grandin

“There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.”

Thinking World Way Giving Firsts May Has Beens Stills Hard Lasts Suffering Felt Born Deals Half This World Stones Suicide Glad Spite Dozen Tempted

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.”

Firsts May Remember Sin Stones Casts Remember When Slander

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone.”

People Firsts Wells Littles Made Book Left Sin Moral Mets Stones Tales Sinner Bigotry Intolerance Casting Little Time Usury Extortion Misdemeanors

Author:Sally Stanford

“Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.”

Firsts Soul Form Water Crime Succeed Stones Guilt Rounds Casts Circles Lakes Troubled Waters

Author:George Colman the Elder

“The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.”

Firsts Happened Stones Studios Accidents Wander Session Hallways

Author:Bobby Keys

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer upon them; let a boat be kept there.”

Firsts Water Dark Space Stones Green Boat Posts Vivid Castles Lap Slime Moats

Book:The Sorrow Dance: Poems

Source: The Sorrow Dance: Poems

“Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.”

Source: The Encantadas and Other Stories

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.”

World Firsts Littles Long Lasts Society Offers Creatures Stones Series Hills Pushing Our World Valleys Repose Uprising Moles Ridges Sisyphus

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Song Easy Christ Nature Rocks Wind Stones And Love Wave Best Things Dawn Surprising Rolling Thunder Fury Right Place Brooks Whispering Cattle Tempest

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked him what to do with her because the law says stone her, Jesus said, let the one who has not committed any sin throw the first stone. This is a great teaching. To be happy as human beings, we don't need lots of laws. All we need are few good teachings and this is one of them.”

Needs Firsts Humans Said Law Jesus Christ Differences Human Beings Sin Teaching Stones Fundamentals Committed Jew Muhammad Great Teaching Good Teaching

Author:Ali Sina

“Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.”

World Firsts Band Stones Very Good Good Bands

Author:Alice Cooper

“Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.”

Firsts Wells Doe First Time Stones Remakes Sequels

Author:Ben Barnes

“As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.”

“Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.”

Trying Firsts Stills Hard Kids Song Beats Stones Copies Bob Dylan

Author:Peter Blegvad

“Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.”

Source: Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

“I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch with Lori Stone, who was an editor at Oxford at that time. We connected at a conference and over the course of lunch she told me about a wonderful new series she had just developed called Understanding Research.”

Years Firsts Book Courses Found Understanding Wonderful Research Stones Series Connected Decades Editors Lunch Conferences Oxford Edited

Author:Patricia Leavy

“You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.”

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness

“Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.”

Men Firsts Culture Fighting Conditions Holy Stones Constant Architecture Man And Nature

Author:Mario Botta

“The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.”

Men Feels Firsts Steps Stones Burden Good Man First Steps

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.”

Firsts Stones Seasons Praise Casts Productions Reluctant

Author:Walter Winchell

“If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.”

Ifs Firsts Silence Stones Temples

Author:Pythagoras

“My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo.”

Firsts Groups Car Stones Ugly Rolling Rolling Stones Delta

Author:Christopher Titus

“I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.”

Way Firsts Play Used Records Stones Starting Rolling Good Way Rolling Stones

Author:Tommy Bolin

“Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.”

Firsts Wells Has Beens Findings Stones Philosopher Chemistry Unlucky

Book:The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...

Source: The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...

“Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst others singer Wolfgang Riechmann (Sky Records released his only solo album Wunderbar shortly after his death in 1978) and drummer Wolfgang Flür (later on Kraftwerk, now solo). The music of S.o.S. in the mid 60's first was the English pop and rock music of the times (Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones ).”

Firsts Spirit Sound Records Sky Rocks Band Members Stones Guitar Albums Pops Singers Rolling Solo Drummer Rock Music Rolling Stones Kink

Author:Michael Rother

“When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.”

Firsts War Ends Home Together Mother Pieces Doors Fields Picks Daughter Stones Destroyed Mother And Daughter Haul

Author:Zainab Salbi

“My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.”

Firsts Real Father Rocks Argument Stones Hated Rolling Rock And Roll Rolling Stones

Author:Patti Smith

“Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Individual Civilization Stones Institutions Species Ignored Advancement Nests Lone Persecuted Maverick

Author:Tom Robbins

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