Firsts Quotes

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

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

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

When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

One must have first of all a solid foundation.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

Obviously music is my first job.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

Your number was up the first time I met you.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

My first vocation was dance.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.