Quotes with first-naming

Quotes 261 till 280 of 1516.

  • Christopher Morley Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Carmen Electra Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
    Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
    But with a little act upon the blood.
    Burn like the mines of Sulphur.
    Othello 3, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carmen Electra Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Oscar Wilde Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dale Carnegie Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Auberon Herbert Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Colin Powell Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Burton Richter During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Carol Shea-Porter During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Mark Twain Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Anita Desai Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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