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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

Quotes by Otto Hahn

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

Quotes by Otto Hahn

The first dance we did for 'Ain’t Misbehavin’ was five minutes and I was like, ‘What? Five minutes!'

Quotes by Oti Mabuse

Although I won many titles on the competition circuit, my first professional audition was in 2015 for the popular German version of 'Strictly Come Dancing', called 'Let’s Dance'.

Quotes by Oti Mabuse

I represent the interests of almost 90,000 human beings in our system. That's by far my first and foremost commitment.

Quotes by Oscar Munoz

As board members, we only meet infrequently and are not as engaged with the front line, necessarily. The first thing I did as CEO was I left this board room.

Quotes by Oscar Munoz

United spent $1.2 billion repurchasing shares in 2015 and plans to spend $1.5 billion on share repurchases in the first quarter of 2016. We have a lot of positive momentum, but this is just the beginning.

Quotes by Oscar Munoz

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

Quotes by Orville Redenbacher

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

Quotes by Orville Wright

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

Quotes by Orville Wright

My first priority is trying to protect my family.

Quotes by Orlando Bloom

Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is... it's the scene with Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first 'Batman,' the museum scene. Him just spray-painting the Mona Lisa, and whatever, with his goons.

Quotes by Oneohtrix Point Never

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

When I saw Santana for the first time, I was really inspired. Same with Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Quotes by Orianthi

I'd like to believe that 'The Apprentice' was a big hit because I was such a superstar in the first season.

Quotes by Omarosa Manigault Newman

The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'

Quotes by Olly Murs

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

Quotes by Olivia Cooke

I got my first passport in 1989, when I was 28.

Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Quotes by Oliver E. Williamson

Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.

Quotes by Oliver E. Williamson

For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.

Quotes by Olaf Carlson-Wee

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

Quotes by Olafur Eliasson

I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

Quotes by Oleg Cassini

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Quotes by Novalis

The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early '80s.

Quotes by Nuno Espirito Santo

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

Quotes by Norman Wisdom

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

Quotes by Norman MacCaig

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Quotes by Norman Borlaug

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Quotes by Norman Douglas

In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

Quotes by Nora Roberts

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Quotes by Nora Roberts

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

Quotes by Nora Roberts

I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.

Quotes by Norbert Leo Butz

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

Quotes by Nolan Ryan

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

Quotes by Noel Coward

I believe in fate. I didn't set out to be a comedian at first. I'm still not sure if I am or not.

Quotes by Noel Fielding

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.

Quotes by Noel Fisher

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

Quotes by Noel Redding

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

Quotes by Noel Redding

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

Quotes by Noel Redding

I always begin to compose the melody first.

Quotes by Nobuo Uematsu

A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.

Quotes by No I.D.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

Quotes by Nina Tassler

When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.

Quotes by Nina Garcia

I think when I started my first album, I was 17 or 18, so I guess I was basically a child.

Quotes by Nina Nesbitt

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

Quotes by Niko Kovac

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Quotes by Nikola Tesla

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.

Quotes by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

Quotes by Nils-Axel Morner

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Quotes by Nikki Giovanni

Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.

Quotes by Nikki Sixx

The first beauty product most Dutchies get is Max Factor mascara. But a lot of people here still only buy mascara and a little lip gloss.

Quotes by NikkieTutorials

The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.

Quotes by Niger Innis

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

Quotes by Nicollette Sheridan

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

Quotes by Nicolas Ghesquiere

The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on.

Quotes by Nicolas Winding Refn

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus

First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.

Quotes by Nico Santos

I had a rough start when I moved to L.A. I couldn't find a job, so I couch-surfed for the first two years.

Quotes by Nico Santos

My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.

Quotes by Nicola Griffith

I've seen a few lookalikes, and that kind of freaks me out, but then I'm not the first person on the planet to have tattoos, and I'm not the first person to have hair or a tattoo sleeve.

Quotes by Nick Wooster

I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.

Quotes by Nicky Jam

I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.

Quotes by Nick Sagan

It shouldn't be two separate styles between the first and second unit as much.

Quotes by Nick Nurse

On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.

Quotes by Nick Davies

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

Quotes by Nick Earls

The idea of acting on the first 'Halloween', it didn't really apply to my eventual work, working with actors.

Quotes by Nick Castle

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

Quotes by Nicholas Meyer

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

Nicholas Sparks

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Quotes by Nicholas Brendon

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

Quotes by Niall Ferguson

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Quotes by Nichelle Nichols

When 'Ghost in the Shell' was first made, it was so prescient. It was sci-fi.

Quotes by Ng Chin Han

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Quotes by Nerlens Noel

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

Quotes by Nelson DeMille

My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

Quotes by NeNe Leakes

I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.

Quotes by NeNe Leakes

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.

Quotes by Neil Tennant

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

Quotes by Nell Carter

Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.

Quotes by Nell Scovell

I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

Quotes by Nell Scovell

There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.

Quotes by Neil MacGregor

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

Quotes by Neil Sheehan

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Neil Gaiman

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

Quotes by Neil Innes

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Quotes by Neil Armstrong

I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.

Quotes by Neil Cross

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

Quotes by Ned Beauman

Saath Saath' was my first big mistake!

Quotes by Neena Gupta

When I became chief minister of Punjab in 1985, I got Murree Road carpeted for the first time.

Quotes by Nawaz Sharif

At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

Quotes by Nawazuddin Siddiqui

He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

Quotes by Navjot Singh Sidhu

If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.

Quotes by Nathan Wolfe

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold

Get there first with the most.

Quotes by Nathan Bedford Forrest

That would be pretty cool being the first one to do the quint.

Quotes by Nathan Chen

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