Firsts Quotes

I was a musician first before anything.

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?

Firsts are best because they are beginnings

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

Jesus was the First American.

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

chaos is the first step in the creative process.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.

Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

To have more, we must first become more.

In order to find, you must first search.

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.

This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)