Firsts Quotes

• In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Bird
  • Century
  • Grass

• Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Book
  • Philosophical
  • Examination

• When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Firsts
  • Blogs

• speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.

  

  Cholly Atkins
  • Style
  • Groups
  • Moved

• I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • American
  • War
  • Winning

• Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Brain
  • Gold
  • Ass

• When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Said
  • Able
  • Dry

• It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Painting

• First you put in, then you get out.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Firsts

• Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

  

  E. R. Squibb
  • Health
  • Firsts
  • Healing

• Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

  

  Thomas More
  • Punishment
  • Becoming
  • Horrible

• I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Trying
  • Gym
  • Hours

• It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

  

  C. R. Smith
  • Money
  • Airplane
  • Aviation

• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Reality
  • Firsts
  • Steps

• To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Dream
  • Space
  • Cosmos

• I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Guitar

• It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Obstacles
  • Conquer
  • Modesty

• One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Life
  • Enthusiasm
  • Spirit Filled Life

• We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Men
  • Beer
  • Strikes

• We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Needs
  • Firsts
  • Reduction

• The great thing about "Shoot 'Em Up, Baby" is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Song
  • Baby
  • Kim

• If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Ifs
  • Views
  • Point Of View

• More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Pay
  • Form
  • Half

• As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Church
  • Singing
  • Matter

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