Firsts Quotes - Page 164

Seek first to understand before being understood.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

It's the first and only rule. Magic comes when you're not looking for it.