Firsts Quotes

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

Probably fishing is my first passion.

My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.

As addictive and satisfying as my first tattoo, Wolf’s Remedy left me craving more.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

Music is my first love.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

It was the first car accident I had ever been in. It shakes you up a little bit.

My first Mongolia trip made me look at the world differently

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

I like to read the ending first.

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

I definitely think the first works best.

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.

For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.