Firsts Quotes

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.

Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

I don't do well at picking first single.

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

It's about listening first, then selling.

I shopped a lot on 1stdibs.com when I first started modelling. Just whenever, I've always been on and bought all my furniture on 1stdibs.com.

I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

Be a learner first, a master second, and a student always.

I never make a mistake on the first move!

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.