Firsts Quotes
-
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
-
Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
-
First you imitate, then you innovate.
-
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
-
Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.
-
Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.
-
A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
-
I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
-
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.
-
To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
-
From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.
-
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
-
What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
-
Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.
-
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
-
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
-
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
-
I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.
-
Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.
-
Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
-
He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
-
He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.
-
I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
-
Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.
