Firsts Quotes

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head

What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.

You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.

I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

No problem, Goth Boy. First one's free.

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Stop looking at me like that." Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied. What moment?" I asked. You're in first place," she said, and then began washing the windows.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

You have to be different, great or first.

You have to be the first, best or different.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

Life is a nonstop circle; learn to live it from the first round.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.

I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

First of all, you are not really that supreme.

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation.

I am going down first. Of course you're going down first, you're the guy.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.