Firsts Quotes

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

To know another's heart, you must first know your own.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

The first one, we’ll name Blue.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it's all going to turn out.

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

When I first came out with Blue, everyone compared me to Patsy Cline, which is the biggest honor, 'cause I've always looked up to her.

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating.

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

That has always been it for me: family first.

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.