Firsts Quotes

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

Bobby Orr was a star when they played the National Anthem in his first game.

By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place.

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.

When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.

The first thing you see is the last thing you do.

But one always returns to one's first loves. [Fr., Mais on revient toujours A ses premieres amours.]

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?

First come, first served.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

In order to die, you must first have lived.

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?"

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.

I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.

I'd be just incredibly humbled and honored to be the first woman president.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

When you play with someone you can feel the chemistry with, just the first show is already magic.

The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.