Firsts Quotes

First causes are outside the realm of science.

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

My first trip to Canada has been great!

I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.

It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'

At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel.

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

I got my first flash of titties from a Venezuelan hooker.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.

I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.

My first open mic was fantastic. I crushed. And my second mic was as bad as my first one was good.

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

Study first, play afterwards.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.