Firsts Quotes - Page 130

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

We are Americans first, Americans last, and Americans always.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit.

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

This life is a stellar opportunity to realize what you are, to bring what you first are into manifestation.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

There never was a revelation without a question first.