Firsts Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

I may not have voted for Donald Trump, but I'm an American first. My entire administration is going to do everything we can to make him as successful as we can.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

It was a nephilim.” “A nephi-what?” asked Hugh, startled. “Isn’t that a character on Sesame Street?” Peter spoke up for the first time.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.

This wasn’t the first time I’d been pulled out of bed for a crucial mission. It was, however, the first time I’d been subjected to such a personal line of questioning. “Are you a virgin?

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

At first I didn't dig country.

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.