Firsts Quotes - Page 141

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building - and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act.

I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals!

My commitment to stand behind Datsun gained the trust of dealers and sold cars. My motto was: Dealers make money first, and then we make money.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

There is no such thing as a publishable first draft.

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.