#first

People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secondly that I'm 'so sweet'. They seem surprised that they're not scared of me. ↗

— Pink

#firstly #i #me #meet #people

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#hands #head #heart #improve #own

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#anything #darkness #fast #faster #finds

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#few #first #given #i #i write

But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president. ↗

— Laura Prepon

#annie #be the first #donna #first #hall

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north. ↗

— John Prescott

#done #first #giving #housing #i

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#ancient greeks #course #either #examined #fascinating

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. ↗

— John Dryden

#habits #make #our #then #us

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#always #back #became #elite #ever