Firsts Quotes - Page 116

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

I don't usually fly in first class, but I fart in first class.

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

Sex scenes are always a little uncomfortable at first.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

To become a leader, you must first become a human being

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.