Firsts Quotes
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
Erykah Badu -
I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'
Kristen Stewart -
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler -
The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.
Madeleine Albright -
The first thing I do when I get there like all of the players on tour is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.
Karch Kiraly -
One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Ernest Hemingway -
With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!
Jerry Coleman
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I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name. Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer -
Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
Seth Godin -
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.
Zadie Smith -
Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.
Barack Obama -
The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
William James -
Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
Kevin James
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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.
H. Rider Haggard -
The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.
Charles Brent -
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 -
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
Paddy Chayefsky -
Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
William Butler Yeats -
You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
Michael Bloomberg
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Vivienne Westwood -
O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
William Shakespeare -
I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.
Akshay Kumar -
The word "knowledge" itself, we like to break it down into two different words, "know" and "ledge." You've got to know the ledge. Know the limitation of things. Know where they go, know where they start from. We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. But everything is first based on something being known. Then, when it's known, then it can be manifested.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen