Firsts Quotes

The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

The vast majority of the coverage had to do with him basically saying, for the first 100 days of my administration, the [Donald] Trump administration, I'd be going after people who ticked me off.

Fear first made gods in the world.

I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack.

Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.

"Batman Begins" leaks existential phoniness from the first frame.

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17.

My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.

Only God gets things right the first time.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.

Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.

When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.

I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place

For the first time in Rex Ryan’s career as a head coach, his offense is now better than his defense.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.

I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.

I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.

If I listen to a campaign promises, I would expect that on the first day [Donald Trump] would cancel all of the DACA documents out there that President [Barack] Obama unconstitutionally issued.

Rush Limbaugh is saying he never took Trump seriously in the first place.

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

I hope my kids learn to put themselves first.

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.