To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
Don Rickles
KnowledgeDoingTryingFirstStarted
The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.
Elmer Davis
PoliceAdvertisingNewsFirstPurity
When I wrote my first blog, I got one response. Now, I sometimes get as many as 400 responses for my posts.
Amitabh Bachchan
NowSometimesFirstGotGetMany
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
Bill Pascrell
LawLongMinimum WageFirstPay
I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.
Tony Parker
I AmMeBasketballLongDoneFirst
The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked by Ivan the Terrible's death.
Saul David
TimeDeathEndingFirstTerribleHe
I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
Mary Steenburgen
SongOldFirstYearsWrote
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
James Harrington
ManFirstSeeMayMustPolitician
I was an eBay addict before my first album hit big. I wanted to go on this tour of the world, so I started selling everything on eBay.
James Blunt
WorldSellingGoFirstEverything
I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
John Galliano
ProcessClothesBodyFirstMotion
All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.
Joshua Foer
MouthFindKnowAfricaFirstAlways
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
YouNewHillFirstAlwaysOver
In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
MeetingSummerNewChicagoFirst
I've always said that if I couldn't be myself, first I'd want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.
Charli XCX
MyselfSaidWantFirstKidAlways
Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
Steven Sinofsky
BusinessKnowledgeCultureNewFirst
I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.
William Bratton
PoliceRememberFirstBostonFuneral
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
Rory Bremner
TeacherFirstImpressionPublic
I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.
Patsy Cline
GoodbyeChurchFirstCourtroomMade
I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.
Jesse Eisenberg
DayEvery DayPlaceClassFirstUp
I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
Luis Gutierrez
SupportCongressFirstLatinoOnly
We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
GovernmentStepNightSayWayFirst
I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.
Isaiah Washington
BlueThinkSayMoreHumanFirst
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.
John Hurt
TimeManElephantKnowNowFirst
I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'
Johnny Gimble
ManPhoneSaidFirstHimPay
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