Firsts Quotes

• You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Able

• In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

  

  William Billings
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Keys

• The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Priority
  • Theater
  • Priorities

• There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Problem
  • Firsts
  • Other Worlds

• Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Discovery

• I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Mother
  • Daughter
  • Priorities

• 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.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Use
  • Stylist
  • Clicks

• The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Next
  • Mouths
  • Bats

• An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

  

  William Ames
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Doe

• All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Style
  • Stories
  • Matter

• I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Firsts
  • Self
  • Protect

• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect.

  

  George Washington
  • Universe
  • Aids
  • Almighty

• Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first.

  

  Ray Allen
  • Firsts
  • Sequels
  • Fluff

• You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps

  

  Seth Godin
  • Care
  • Safety
  • Committed

• The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence also it is called "daring." For when the monad manifests unification, the dyad steals in and manifests separation.

  

  Iamblichus
  • Firsts
  • Names
  • Separation

• But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

  

  Midge Ure Ultravox
  • Guitar
  • Favorite
  • Instruments

• There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Two

• When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've always had an immediate proclivity towards making visual art and I was a really tactile kid.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Feels

• I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Friend
  • Sad
  • Summer

• The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

  

  John Stuart Blackie
  • Men
  • Water
  • Wise

• Don't stop with your first draft.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Stop
  • Firsts

• 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.

  

  Adele Exarchopoulos
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Remember

• Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Black
  • Firsts
  • Flags

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