Firsts Quotes
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.
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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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Second place is really the first loser.
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The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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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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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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One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
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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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A second-class is a first-class mistake.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
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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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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 first draft of anything is sh*t.
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The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.
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When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
