Firsts Quotes - Page 140

I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?

To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.

It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.

Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.

The gravity is the first thing which you don't think

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Truth is always the first casualty of war.