Quotes with first-naming

Quotes 181 till 200 of 1516.

  • Bobby Wallace As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
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  • Francis Bacon As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Asne Seierstad As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Brit Morin At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 237
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Carol Berg At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Edward Rowland Sill At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
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  • Aldous Huxley At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carol Bartz Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bob Beauprez Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Aesop Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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