#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

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment. ↗

— Frank Press

#computers #equipment #first #started #tried

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him. ↗

— Billy Preston

#corner #day #eased #first #first time

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world. ↗

— Big Pun

#best #core #first #hard #i

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#battle #behind #blood #fighting #first

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. ↗

— Robert Reed

#arms #before #book #came #deal

Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create. ↗

— Tracy Reese

#create #easier #effect #figuring #first

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out. ↗

— Nick Park

#america #american #british #clear #first

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ↗

— Walter Pater

#bury #calling #experience #external #external objects