Firsts Quotes - Page 175

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don't get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again."

I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

My mother was my first jealous lover.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.