Firsts Quotes

Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.

My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

Later is always my first choice.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

Truth usually stammers at first.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework.

Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

Everything that exists is created first in the imagination, and secondly in reality, through activity.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

You have to throw yourself into a situation of trust with these things, especially that first day when you don't know someone and you're on a massive Disney Hollywood movie set.

First open your heart, then open your Bible.