Firsts Quotes - Page 143

Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.

I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. - all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.

The first thing you learn in boxing is that there are NO guarantees.

When I meet a beautiful girl, the first thing I say is 'will you marry me?'. The second thing I say is, 'how do you do?'

A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.

The way I've been playing, I didn't really care who I was going to be playing first round.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.

Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is that we went to producers and there were a lot of great producers.

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.