#first

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#after #barring #better #between #economy

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#another #could #first #how #indeed

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#filmmaker #first #i #knew #like

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#ever #first #got #hell #here

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#could #deeply #experience #feature #feature film

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#first #first time #get #i #live

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#engineer #father #federal #federal reserve #finally

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#annual #british #chum #fiction #first

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#first #first of all #going #mine #off

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. ↗

— Voltaire

#each #error #first #first law #folly