Firsts Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Treat each class as if it were your first.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.