Firsts Quotes

Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

There are few things more disconcerting than realizing the first date you thought went so well was in fact a dud.

The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

Obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, every like something the first time I listen to it. So I've got to put myself in other people's shoes.

The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

Any time a new technology is introduced, like when TV was first invented, everybody was like, "Radio's dead."

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

She's the nicest person I know." Zila chewed on her lower lip. "Well, the second nicest. Avry's the first.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away.

The women on that list are amazing, so to be on it for the first time and have this position is crazy. I'm not one to walk around and strut like Miss Thing, so I'm pretty humbled.

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.

When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.