Firsts Quotes - Page 176

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.