Firsts Quotes

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

My first album came out in 1979.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

[Miss] Piggy was amazing, I was nervous because I wrote our opening. I wrote the song, wrote what we were going to do. And first I was hoping that they would approve it, because they're not playing.

You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

You do not need to do anything first to be enlightened.

When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.

We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

Boswell is the first of biographers.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Things were first made, then words.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

I've always looked at myself and criticized myself first, and that's the way I'm always going to be.

I guess, first and foremost, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

You're never quite sure, when you first get something if you really have a sense of what an opportunity it is.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.