#first

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#came #could #different #different shapes #first

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#animal #both #dog #even #fifth

I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#canadian #first #gotta #home #i

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ↗

— Gamaliel Bailey

#first #frauds #oneself #worst

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#become #celebration #conference #date #day

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#concludes #does #embark #first #person

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#first time #hearing #japanese #many #native

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#bible #cartoons #doing #first #i

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#composer #consider #everything #first #opera

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry. ↗