Firsts Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

Nature's first great title--mind.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Always try to understand and educate yourselves on the reasons why Allah has given you life, do that part first then enjoy the rest of life and chill out.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

The first and last frosts are the worst.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.

My mother was my first jealous lover.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.