Firsts Quotes

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

First thoughts are not always the best.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.

I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

First, you have to finish.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

If design is the first signal of human intention.

When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.