Firsts Quotes

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

The first is last, and the last is first.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

you never forget your first fall.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

Plan B is if Hillary [Clinton] is indicted. Then, even if I missed the deadlines for the first couple of primaries, I'll be there to rescue the party. All bets are off.

I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

You have to fix something when it first appears.

It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

In the corporate community the key word is respect. In the corporate community you don't get a relationship until they respect you first.

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

For you to access your own innermost as awareness is for you to surrender form after form after form, enabling you as awareness to recede to what you first are, for you to be meaning.

With your reorientation as awareness, difficulty calls upon your resources - not first the resources that you're familiar with, but the resources of your own being.

Integrate the unseen of what you first are in the midst of all things seen.