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We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

Gavin MacLeod

Time

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Connie Mack

First

Man

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

First

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

Alicia Machado

Career

First

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Douglas MacArthur

First