Firsts Quotes

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument.

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.

The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

Compose first, worry later.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

Very often the music comes first.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, "I am for people, individuals - exactly like automobile insurance - individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

is love at first sight truly possible?

For my wife and I, our first child was really easy to have, but our second one was really hard to have. We had to go to a lot of fertility clinics and do that whole thing.

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Family is always first.

This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?

First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."

My best takes are my first two takes.

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."