Firsts Quotes
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The first hundred years are the hardest.
Wilson Mizner
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Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.
Thomas Sowell
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
Sun Ra
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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
Sergio Leone
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I think the first thing is to recognize that there is an ebb and flow to your career. There are going to be moments that are really high, and then you're going to have moments where you step away for a little bit, and maybe that's just by choice or maybe you have a family.
Michelle Monaghan
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There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.
Scott Adams
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
Seneca the Younger
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The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.
Northrop Frye
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That's your first mistake. Do not trust me.
Randy Orton
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
William H. Macy
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon
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Hitler was the first superstar.
David Bowie
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When we first hear a word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
Joshua Foer
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
Dolly Parton
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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
Cathy Freeman
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
Ray Bradbury
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I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.
Nicholas Sparks
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I'm pretty sure that wasn't Oscar's first time getting harassed or held-up by authorities. And over time you start to feel some type of way when you get pulled over. "Oh, I gotta go through this. Again."
Michael B. Jordan
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.
Toni Kroos
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I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
Steve Martin
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Seneca the Younger
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If you ain't first, you're last!
Will Ferrell