Firsts Quotes
-
We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
-
Second place is really the first loser.
-
If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.
-
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
-
I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.
-
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
-
Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.
-
In order to write about life first you must live it.
-
The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
-
There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.
-
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
-
When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.
-
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
-
If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
-
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
-
My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
-
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.
-
Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.
-
The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
-
The first person you have to resurrect is yourself
-
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
-
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.
-
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
-
Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
