Firsts Quotes
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
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You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
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That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.
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There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
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It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey in the True Detective.They're fun guys with Woody Harrelson. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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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!
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.
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Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
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For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
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Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.
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Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.
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My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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...first check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
