Firsts Quotes
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The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.
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I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."
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I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
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If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first.
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And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
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The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
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There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.
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Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.
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We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
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Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
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Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.
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I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.
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We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.
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My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.
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SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.
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Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
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A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
