Firsts Quotes

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after.

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

The economic part is the one that came out first because there were some problems about which the press spoke a lot.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.

The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

Oh yeah Kurt? You plan on getting the 1-2-3? But not if I hit you first with the 6-1-9!

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

I like the word f-k. F-king deal with it and move on to the first f-king question you have.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.

Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'

I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.

Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!