Firsts Quotes - Page 129

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

A first love always occupies a special place.

The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

The rules are simple: the first one to lose dies.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.