Firsts Quotes
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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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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
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Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!
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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
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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.
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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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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.
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Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
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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.
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I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
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O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
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I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.
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Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.
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A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
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Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.
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A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.
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I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.
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Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
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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.
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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.
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
