Firsts Quotes

A poet's first contract is with truth.

Which came first - the observer or the particle?

Love is the eternal first breath.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

In order to have peace, we must first have trust.

This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.

I have to do everything tomorrow first.

On the first night it was on telly, Channel 4 had 17 complaints.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

We're like brothers [with Tommy Lee] - we argue, we don't talk to each other for a while, and then we forget why we were even arguing in the first place.

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

You have to first experience what you want to express

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

You never forget your first love.

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.