Quotes 921 till 940 of 1511.
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That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.
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That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.
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That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
Middlesex (2003) 197 -
The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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