Firsts Quotes

When I first started out, I said to myself, if this doesn't happen there will be something else that I can do. That seemed possible because I knew how to do so many different kinds of jobs.

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first.

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

I was freaking out. I had my first pimple and I was like, what is this? I didn't know what to do with myself. Now it's all gone, but it's so weird, what you put inside of your body.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

Don't stop with your first draft.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible.

Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

Journalism is the first draft of history

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.

The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring

When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

There are miracles in life I must achieve. But first I know it starts inside of me.

Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.

I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last." -George from If We Kiss

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.