Firsts Quotes

• Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Training
  • Looks
  • Roles

• The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Feels
  • Firsts
  • Bothered

• I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

  

  Michaela Conlin
  • Firsts
  • Moved
  • Homesick

• There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

  

  William Goldman
  • Speak
  • Creative
  • Jobs

• If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • Way
  • Firsts
  • Priorities

• We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. Everything is first based on something being known.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Universe
  • Foundation
  • Known

• I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

  

  Michelle Dockery
  • Thinking
  • Sitting
  • Realised

• On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

  

  Nick Gordon
  • Firsts
  • Gentle
  • Hanukkah

• We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.

  

  Bert McCracken
  • Running
  • Ideas
  • Records

• Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enough
  • Cry
  • Lays

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Wanted
  • Scared

• To write, you must first belong to yourself.

  

  Nicole Brossard
  • Writing
  • Firsts

• Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Action
  • Quality
  • Information

• I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Time
  • Becoming

• I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Mean
  • Victory
  • Made

• Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

  

  William Feather
  • Persons
  • Subjects
  • Indulge

• There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Feels
  • Teenager
  • Crush

• 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
  • Fans
  • Firsts
  • Bigs

• If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.

  

  Michelle Shocked
  • Human
  • Apology
  • Apologizing

• The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Firsts
  • Ends
  • Wilde

• My gratitude to them my first teachers grows as I myself grow older.

  

  George Sarton
  • Teacher
  • Gratitude
  • Grows

• I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Today
  • Turns
  • Yesterday

• In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Seems
  • Bigger

• At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Needs
  • Alternatives
  • Status Quo

1

...

28

29

30

31

32

...

37

previous

next