Firsts Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.

We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

Be willing to make bold decisions and be willing to make glorious mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, but you've got to be willing to make them first.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

The first great law is to obey.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.

I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.