#irs

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#first #his #looks #regards #spring

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#care #first #first thing #how #last

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. ↗

— Theresa May

#arrive #basis #briefing #daily #daily basis

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#any #branches #divisions #first #impossible

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#another #articulated #clearly #concept #condition

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#attention span #bad #bad habit #first #first of all

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#around #bag #because #book #everything

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#become #billie #billie holiday #desire #first

I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#country music #ever #first #i #music

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist. ↗

— John McGahern

#become #bring #could #dislike #expression