Firsts Quotes

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

With me it's always about first impressions.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

For me, family has always come first.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

The best thing about being cheated on is I get to go on more first dates.

Every monster was a man first.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

The first five times that you bang someone and the last million times are two different worlds.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Being a bad writer a thousand times first.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.