Firsts Quotes
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
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I can't remember what my first script was.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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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.
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One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.
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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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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 first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.
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Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
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Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that the Americans had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
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I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first, otherwise, they will shoot you. So I can tell you a joke and maybe you will laugh at the beginning. But it's not about telling jokes.
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
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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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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?'
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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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You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
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When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.
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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
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Second place is really the first loser.
