Firsts Quotes - Page 145

He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

Treat each class as if it were your first.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

Your number was up the first time I met you.

The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

American is the first democratic nation-state.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

One must have first of all a solid foundation.

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.