Firsts Quotes

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Work first, and then rest.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.

Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in September of 1984 when I started there.

The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet some amazing people that week.

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

Let's get to a world where we don't litigate the aftermath, because it doesn't happen in the first place.

Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.

If you don't get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another.

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.

First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

When I get to first base, I start thinking about third.

The first thought is often the best.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.

You were the first in every way that counted.

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.