First Quotes
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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
Homer
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To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.
Anthony Charles Edwards
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
Alan Cumming
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My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.
Isabel Lucas
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Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.
Philip James Bailey
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
Ben Affleck
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Flann O'Brien
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When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
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Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Farid al-Din Attar
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When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode
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Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.
Confucius
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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.
Domenica Costa
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
Victor Hugo
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I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'
Judge Reinhold
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Her face, at first…just ghostly Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Keith Reid Procol Harum
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I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.
Carol Friedman
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She skated really, really well. The two triple-triples made for a really strong program. She deserved to be first.
Sasha Cohen
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac