Firsts Quotes - Page 133

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

In a long race, if I'm worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.

The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

To me, the model example of how to share your faith is Jesus with the woman at the well in John 4. He was patient with her. He took time for her. To some degree, she was kind of disrespectful to Him at first, initially kind of blowing off what he said and blowing off what he was saying to her. But then, as it continued on, she began to understand and ultimately believed.

[In] 2010, Woody Allen said that he felt Barack Obama should be a dictator so that he could get things done, and the first thing obviously that Woody Allen wanted done is to make it legal to have sex with stepdaughters.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.