Firsts Quotes - Page 180

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first.

First sentences are doors to worlds.

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

It's very easy to overproduce stuff and you can forget those first spontaneous ideas are often the best ideas.

Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. [...] And also I'm monogamous.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

Family's always first. God and family, and I go from there.

Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.