Firsts Quotes

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.

I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.

...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful

We fail because we give up, and we give up because we never had a plan in the first place

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.

First be effective and then be efficient.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.

When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

A lot of it is mental - you have to not fear your opponent. That's the number one thing, first off. Don't underestimate anybody, but don't fear anybody.

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.

If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.

If you don't live in your strengths, you'll die in your weaknesses. Do first and most what you're good at, and bring others along who are good at your weaknesses.

He [Donald Trump] is the one who got him [Barack Obama] to finally produce the birth certificate. Hillary Clinton's campaign first raised this issue. He picked this up from Hillary Clinton.

First thing you have to do is say to yourself what can I bring to it, what can I do that's different or - and how can I make the country better? How can I improve it?

This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent.

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.