Firsts Quotes

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you.

The first word about you is that you received this life.

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.

No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

I don't rush out the first day to see every horror movie, but I do keep up on them, because I want to talk intelligently with the fans about them.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

There's just a misconception that comes with being a dual-threat quarterback. You run first, throw second. I've proven I throw first and then run if I have to.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

I ask God in spirit and in truth 'what are we?'. It's the questions first.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.