Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

- Joanne Harris

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

- Ree Drummond

The real product at Diesel is satisfaction. My satisfaction at Diesel is being a pioneer.

- Renzo Rosso

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

- Natalie Cole

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

- Mark McCormack

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

- Monica Crowley

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

- Major Taylor

I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.

- Lesley Visser

I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

- Laura Mvula

I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.

- Jake Abel

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

- Buzz Aldrin

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

- Joni Mitchell

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

- Harvey S. Firestone

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

- Frank Murkowski

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

- Eric Hoffer

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

- David Rockefeller

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

- Daryl Hall

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

- Charles Marion Russell

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

- Carlos Ghosn

I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it pretty much 100 percent of the time. It was a pitch that I had to have. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't have been in the big leagues.

- Bruce Sutter