Firsts Quotes

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.

Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

In every situation, no matter what first appears. Find the good that is always there, and change that fear to cheer.

I luv the book first step to forever by justin bieber

I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

To be completely featured as human. First of all, man must live with the truth.

I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

I never asked to be born in the first place.

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

For the first time I feel really free.

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

Resistance is the first step to change.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

I was always the first one to break. I'll admit it. I couldn't keep a straight face.

Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

Victims should come first.