First Tweet Quotes

#1. An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

George Herbert

#2. Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.

Ian McEwan

#3. I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

Sufe Bradshaw

#4. The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Ovid

#5. When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

Gail Zappa

#6. It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

Q-Tip

#7. I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it later or tweet about it. The most annoying people to bring to movies, I think we all agree, are those who read the book first.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.

Janina Gavankar

#9. With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.

John Maynard Keynes

#10. Walter Kugler was on the ground, his blond hair peppered with dirt.

Markus Zusak

#11. It was never a good thing when a bad guy started quoting Nietzsche.

Robert Kroese

#12. First tweet, best tweet, I always think. I try not to work them too much or else they get Pie Dough Disease, which is where the dough has been to too much college and doesn't understand that it is dough anymore and refuses to be shaped. Pie Dough Disease! Poems get that too.

Patricia Lockwood

#13. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

John Michael Hayes

#14. Some had come to look upon death as a mercy. Death meant warmth. Death was light. Life was cruel, cold, heavy and dark. Life was pain. Death was deliverance, and many would welcome it. Others doggedly clung to life and willed themselves to walk on.

Sage Steadman

#15. And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade

Dashiell Hammett

#16. Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

Nancy O'Dell

#17. There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.

Bradley A. Smith

#18. Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

Jeanette Winterson

#19. Twitter has the sustained ability to not get all touchy when I forget to "favorite" and thus had me at the first entirely inappropriate tweet flung my way.

Jennifer Harrison