Firsts Quotes

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy

When you need a lifestyle change due to [health issues], a dietary change is usually the first thing you need to take control of.

I went through a lifestyle change when I dropped 40 pounds. Taking care of my diet was the first thing I did.

I love first base. I want to get better.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.

If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.

It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?

If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

I remember that Jackie [Stewart] was the first driver wearing flameproof underwear! What it definitely was: it was much more flamboyant. But that doesn't really make it better in my point of view.

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.

Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

The first thing I ever bought for myself was a green Lacoste shirt.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.