Firsts Quotes - Page 103

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

It's difficult to relax on tournaments, even in posh hotels, because you don't know how long you will be there - whether you'll lose a match on the first day and leave or whether you'll stay for longer.

Before I point a finger at anyone, I have to point it at myself first.

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.