Firsts Quotes
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
Erykah Badu
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It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
C. R. Smith
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.
William Petersen
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.
Sandra Bullock
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I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.
Peter O'Toole
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Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first.
Nadia Buari
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I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees
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Senator [Bob] Corker has been, first of all, discreet and loyal. He has not signaled the internal mechanisms. He`s been pretty honestly saying, I wasn`t a real insider in the campaign.
Andrea Mitchell
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I was the first person to go to university from my family.
Ellie Goulding
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Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
William Lewis Trogdon
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Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.
Mike Vallely Black Flag
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
J. C. Ryle
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What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
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When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
Daniel Johns Silverchair
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I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
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My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.
T. J. Miller
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Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
N. T. Wright
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
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Hit hard, hit fast and hit often
William Halsey
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Mental health courts exist because the system has failed.
E. Fuller Torrey
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There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
William Morris Hunt