Firsts Quotes - Page 171

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

Here’s what I tell people now when they come to my shows: “First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.”

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.

Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

When I published my first novel, Slammed, I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.

It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.