Firsts Quotes

... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

The stage is my first love.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.

The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.

My first real girlfriend broke up with me because she was married already.

There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

I was the first size 14 model to be featured in an ad in the magazine,I was the first size 14 model on the cover!

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.

First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.

Nations die first in the big cities.