Firsts Quotes - Page 178

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.

From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

To create is, first and foremost, to create time.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.

Music first, music last, music always

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own mood. When your mood is balanced, scoundrels cannot get at you.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

I'm a big proponent of 'Don't Ask, Don't tell,' in fact, I enforce it strictly on all of my dates. First, I don't ask them for sex, and then I warn them not to tell anyone after I'm through.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.

I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.

I cannot imagine live without two things, First is cigarette and second are girls.

They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.