Firsts Quotes

If you ain't first, you're last!

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Every offense is not a hate at first.

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t?

The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.

Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."

That first movie I did, Lucas [1986], was probably the closest to me. And Beetlejuice a little bit, in the sense that I did look like that. All they did was like put a little white powder here.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.