Firsts Quotes
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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
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Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
Nellie McClung
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When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
Ivor Novello
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My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.
Sara Canning
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I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
Richard Masur
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Family is always first.
Nick Cannon
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It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.
Steve Martin
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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Nicholas Sparks
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Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that first go at the story. If I don't have the key in that first draft, I invariably won't get it in subsequent drafts, though I can craft around it.
Caridad Svich
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A sucker has no business with money in the first place.
Canada Bill Jones
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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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I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.
Carrie Snodgress
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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
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I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
Paul Merton
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I love The Matrix, especially the first one.
Cass Sunstein
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You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.
Mo Ibrahim
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I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.
Mollie King
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Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.
Tony Kushner
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The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.
Erin Moran
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The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.
William Stringfellow
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Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with Sherman that a rebel has no rights, not even the right to live except by our permission.
Charles Fessenden Morse
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There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.
Wolf Kahn
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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
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Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?
Richard Aldington