Firsts Quotes - Page 118

Winning doesn't always mean being first.

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.

I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love.

Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place).

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

No science ever defends its first principles.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

If God exists, Id be the first to be told.

I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a bit of time spent learning our craft. You improve as a song writer and as a musician over time.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

The first version of everything is janky.

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.