Firsts Quotes

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

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.

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

My first vocation was dance.

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.

Your number was up the first time I met you.

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.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.

The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

First thoughts are the strongest.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

It's the first and only rule. Magic comes when you're not looking for it.

When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

The way I've been playing, I didn't really care who I was going to be playing first round.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.