Firsts Quotes

The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

My first influences were superhero artists.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.

The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.

I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.

The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

Great work is always shunned at first.

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

I always travel first class on a train. It's the only way to avoid one's creditors.

More than 80% of our revenue comes from people viewing ads on mobile devices. Inside Twitter, we talk and think mobile first.

Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.