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Quotes About Pioneer

I do think there is a valid reason that Segovia commissioned the composers he did. He was very much a pioneer, and what he wanted was a very listenable repertory. But I'm interested in different aspects of the guitar, and of music.
~ Julian Bream
figure of the First.
~ Jean M. Auel
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.
~ David Mixner
Hippies? Why, I'm the original.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
I'm the original.
~ Sally Rand
in matches. He pioneered the matted slide and the frenched borders on 1911s. Now, the look of an honest-to-goodness
~ Unknown
The true hero of the American utopia is neither the cowboy nor the soldier, but the pioneer, the pathfinder, the person who 'takes his body, where his eyes have been'.
~ Paul Virilio
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
~ Reginald Fessenden
Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.
~ Dan Harmon
I was 'attitude' in this place before it was a catchphrase!
~ Shawn Michaels
To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
~ Gregory Benford
I was the first guy from a modelling background to successfully venture into films.
~ Rahul Dev
McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.
~ Eric Schlosser
I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.
~ Howard Rheingold
Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n' roll - you don't have to be a bass player - he is a pioneer, and he was true to his music and also the lover of a lot of different styles of music.
~ Robert Trujillo
There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.
~ Stanley Clarke
I was making grime before anyone else.
~ Dizzee Rascal
I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.
~ Reba McEntire
My mother was one of the first women admitted to Vienna University and her word was law.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
An Ursuline nun was the first pharmacist in Louisiana.
~ Unknown
Out where the skies are a trifle bluer Out where friendship's a little truer That's where the West begins.
~ Joan Didion
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
~ Richard Stallman
From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
~ Louis Adamic