Firsts Quotes

Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.

I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second film is where you've really needed to have learned something.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.

Family comes first for me in every single way.

Why don't we try falling in love first and then I'll see what happens after that?

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

I did Brad's first film The Take and I'm glad Brad [Furman] has not calmed down. I don't want him to ever calm down.

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

The fact that the bond market is rallying today is a plus. If this ends up being a bear market, it will be one of the first ever that began when interest rates are down.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

We are the first to ever publicly advertise we dont test on animals.

When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.