Firsts Quotes - Page 132

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

The Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance.

I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves.

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.

First is first, and second is nowhere.

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.