Firsts Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.

A first impulse was never a crime.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

When I first went onstage I even had a suit jacket on with the sleeves rolled up because that's what I saw on TV or at the Improv that everybody did.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.

Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

Acting was my first love.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Nothing happens... but first a dream.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.

The first time I was in this state recruiting, that's when I knew I wanted to be a Gator, because I saw the influence and saw what it's all about. This goes a long time.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

The first loss is the best loss.

[Bob Ferguson] won that huge ruling against the first version of the Muslim ban that resulted in it being stopped dead in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.