Firsts Quotes

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

My first objective is to win against No. 1 in the world.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.

Is it sad that my first thought happened to be: Thank God I'm off the treadmill.

Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it

I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.

You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't necessarily love Krishna, so they can't understand Him and give Him to us.

The first dish pleaseth all.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.

He that riseth first, is first drest.

The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.

I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.