Firsts Quotes
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
Tom Stoppard
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Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.
Yelawolf
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
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If design is the first signal of human intention.
William McDonough
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The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
J. C. Ryle
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Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.
N.D. Wilson
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We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.
William Rehnquist
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
V. S. Naipaul
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There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.
Vincent Price
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Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
H. G. Wells
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I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
Andrew Motion
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
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So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey
Rob Zombie
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
William O. Douglas
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For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.
Iain Pears
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I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
Matisyahu
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An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
Hugo Black
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First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.
Russell Banks
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
Etgar Keret
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I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else.
Sherman Alexie
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My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.
Sandra Bullock