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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I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
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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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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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You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.
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The first person you have to resurrect is yourself
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From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.
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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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Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"
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Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.
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We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.
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Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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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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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
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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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The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
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None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.
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When we started, we were from the South and we looked the part. Plus there was sex and violence on our first album. People immediately attached themselves to it, especially outside of America, because they see the South as a mythical place.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
