Best two & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.”

Firsts Two Light Half Minutes Vibrations Rockets

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.”

Firsts Two Desire President Victory Claims Congress Agendas Ingredients Lacking Mandates Andrew Prerogative Landslides

Author:Ron Fournier

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

“I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.”

Knows Firsts Two Might Three Four Player Winner Slam

Author:Patrick Rafter

“Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Two Character Novel Neurotic

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.”

Writing Firsts Two Book Jobs Teaching Odd Odd Jobs

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.”

Firsts Two Moments Happiness Achieve Buddhism Periods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.”

Knows Firsts Persons Two Enjoy Minutes Orchestra Rehearsal

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.”

Firsts Two Guy Teaching Band Rehearsal

Author:Ike Turner

“I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.”

Firsts Two Choices Proud England Managers Captains

Author:John Terry

“I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.”

Firsts Two Class Feet Dancing Injury Surgery Anna

Author:Alicia Vikander

“When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.”

Years Firsts Two School Film Three Years Ago Series Two Years Three Years Film School Short Films

Author:James Franco

“Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.”

Firsts Wells Kind Two Important Culture Institutions Important Things Islam Differentiate

Author:Abdurrahman Wahid

“Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.”

Firsts Two Albums

Author:Miranda Lambert

“I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.”

Firsts Two Remember Details Sketchy

Author:Ian McShane

“I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.”

Feels Should Trying Firsts Wells Two Book Real Reading Enjoy Morning Figures Months Businessman Kindles Two Months

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.”

People Firsts Said Two Reality Effects First Time Thirds Employee Expenses

Author:Mike McGavick

“I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.”

Ifs Firsts Two Actors Scene Okay Treats Cameras Rehearsal

Author:Alfred Molina

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally considered? And second, what are the subconscious influences where the brain at a subconscious level is automatically conclusions in various ways — which, by and large, are useful — but which often malfunction? One approach is rationality… And the other is to evaluate the psychological factors that cause subconscious conclusions — many of which are wrong.”

Way Firsts Kind Two Use Causes Interest Levels Brain Influence Involved Approach Track Various Psychological Factors Conclusion Analysis Subconscious Rationality Evaluate Malfunction

Author:Charlie Munger

“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”

Want Firsts Littles Two Character Night Actors Prayer Laughing Five Minutes Stage Demand Starting Stakes Broadway Five Minutes Exit Starting Out

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.”

Ifs Firsts Two Three

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.”

Years Firsts Two Character Drawing Two Years Two Year Olds

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.”

Ifs World Firsts Two God Known Gone Conclusion Ruins Denial Premises

Author:Al-Ghazali

“My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.”

Way Firsts Two Character Stories Past Novel Research My Way

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.”

Firsts Two States School Jobs Three Sports Construction Yards Free Time Yard Work

Author:Breaux Greer

“My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.”

Firsts Children Two Dream Effort Study Areas Pilots Parallels Pursued Astronomers

Author:Claude Nicollier

“I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.”

Thinking Firsts Two Play Shows Months Involved Six Models Theater Males Forty Plastic Six Months Casting

Author:Austin Peck

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.”

Firsts Wells Two Term Two Things Quarrels Contending

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.”

Source: The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy

“Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.”

Firsts Persons Two Seems Today Science Certain Groups Errors Currents Impression Theology Materialistic Uninformed Religion Today

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.”

Feels Firsts Humans Two Ideas Soul Earth Form Desire Fighting Wish Adventure Return Human Form

Book:Self-realization Magazine

Source: Self-realization Magazine

“Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.”

“I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.”

People Firsts Two Goes On First Time

Author:Janet McTeer

“I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.”

Firsts Two Kids America Moving Mom Dad My Mom California Cousin North America Mom And Dad

Author:Donal Logue

“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.”

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”

Thinking Men Firsts Heart Mean Two Turns Speak Force Voice Subjects Danger He Man Solitude Equal Approach Painful Pleasant Reasonable Yield Avoiding

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.”

Ifs Firsts Two Character Waiting Lines Fine Glances

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”

Firsts Two Chance Practice Groups Fans Baseball Categories Divided Batting Baseball Fans Batting Practice

Book:How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

Way Firsts May Two Character Seems Form Ability Failing Greatness Succeed Importance Trials Spite Willingness Flawed Starting Over Measurement Two Ways Ability To Succeed

Author:Guy Finley

“Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.”

Firsts Two Tree Painting Masters Shadow Bless Sunlight

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.”

Should Firsts Two Book Literature Views Emotion Study Students Method Point Of View Thoughts And Emotions Workmanship

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.”

Firsts Two Lasts Turns Three Challenges Careers Middle Victory Corners Finished Broke Flags June Tunnels Lanes Top 10 Checkered

Author:Tony Stewart

“My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.”

Firsts Two Parent Magic Responsible Driving Tricks Two Things Magician Magic Tricks

Author:Fernando Alonso

“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.”

“Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?”

Firsts May Said Two Summer Seasons Infinite Compare June Frost

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“It doesn't matter to me. I'm just worried. It's the first time I've see Teach like that. He said he had two regrets...Once, 20 years ago. And once when you hurt your wrist. He said he didn't ever want to regret again. I wonder what that means.”

Want Years Firsts Mean Said Two Matter Hurt Wonder Teach Regret Drama First Time Years Ago Worried Wrists

Author:Kim Su-mi

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