Quotes with first-naming

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 1516.

• We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

  Carl Bernstein
  American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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• We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

  Fred A. Allen
  American comic (1894 - 1956)
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• We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.

  Brad D. Smith
  American businessman
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• We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

  James Madison
  American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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• We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

  Arthur Peacocke
  English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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• We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

  Will Rogers
  American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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• We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

  Amy Tan
  American author (1952 - )
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• We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

  Donald Curtis
   
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• We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

  Thomas Troward
  English author (1847 - 1916)
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• We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

  Paul Boese
  American filmmaker
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• We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.

  Bert McCracken
  American singer (1982 - )
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• We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

  A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.

  Adolf Galland
  German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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• We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

  Bill Walsh
  American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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• We have been investing in building a mobile-first selling capability by establishing the Consumer Channels Group to strengthen and align the device-selling motion and to expand our impact with OEM, retail channel partners and our operator channel, and by extending it with our opening of Microsoft Stores.

  B. Kevin Turner
  American businessman (1965 - )
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• We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

  John Naisbitt
  American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• out-of-the-gates
• self-generating
• [information]
• operational
• generation
• automobile

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