Firsts Quotes - Page 15

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else."

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.