Firsts Quotes
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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.
Jim Gaffigan
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Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.
Zack Snyder
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
Lou Holtz
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Every offense is not a hate at first.
William Shakespeare
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I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.
Kevin Spacey
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We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.
Vivek Wadhwa
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If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
William J. O'Neil
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When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."
Sandra Bullock
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Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
Tahereh Mafi
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley
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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.
Tracy Spiridakos
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I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus
Dan Wells
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To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first
Keith Ferrazzi
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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
J. D. Salinger
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It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.
Sarah Dessen
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Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.
Dolly Parton
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
Ernest Hemingway
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
Sara Blakely
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First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.
Stephen Fry
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I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.
Mike Figgis
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Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.
William S. Burroughs
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Very often the music comes first.
Neil Diamond
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History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
Erik Qualman
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My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.
Rebecca Mader