Firsts Quotes

First rule about vampires, don't believe anything you read.

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

As Trevor Noah recently quipped, the US appears ready to crown its first African dictator: Donald Trump.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through.

The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

People think the leadoff spot is a big deal. I tell people you're going to lead off the first inning, and after that, you can be a No. 4 hitter or No. 3 hitter.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I just thought his reporting seemed familiar.

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate.

If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That's when you really have to prove it to people.

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.