Firsts Quotes

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.

The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.

Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.

Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

French was my first language.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.

One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

I believe my speed begins when I round first base.

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

The way that I approach helping is to first make sure that I understand.

Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

You're always first when no one's on your side.

Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing it”iteration is a way of engineering.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone's and my first film.

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Fundamentals in the gaming sector remained relatively healthy during the first quarter.