#first

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actions #deciding #determines #fate #first

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#first #i #interesting #movie #review

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. ↗

— Euripides

#first #god #mad #makes #those

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#actually #asked #association #ball games #boy

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him. ↗

— Linda Evans

#father #first #him #i #john

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#anybody #first #first thing #getting #giddy

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet. ↗

— David Boies

#first #first thing #important #industry #internet

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. ↗

— Brian Eno

#could #first #got #heard #i

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #bear #blossom #bunch #created

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. ↗

— Epictetus

#adorn #first #know #then #who