#first

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bacteria #cells #colony #creatures #each

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#comes #existence #first #intelligent #intelligent life

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chatter #discipline #education #feed #first

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#boy #first #first kiss #his #i

I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#doing #english #first #got #i

People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.' ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#been #comment #first #first thing #grown

Macbeth was the first play I ever read. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#first #i #macbeth #play #read

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#anybody #book #first #first kiss #great

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#always #first #i #just #put

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. ↗