Firsts Quotes - Page 183

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".

I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change.

Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.

To be a great leader, first become a great person.

You can't win unless you first begin. So start now

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.

I had expected to be playing in the reserves and, all going well, that I might get a chance in the first team towards the end of the season. But it has all happened much faster than I could ever have thought.

On a baby of his own: You gotta be married first. That's my rule: marriage then baby!

Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.

At first I was protecting you two because I promised. Now even if I hadn't promised, I would. You two are like kittens to me. I won't fail you again." I'll admit I got a lump in my throat. I'd never been called someone's kitten before. Sadie sniffled. She brushed something from under her eye. "You're not going to wash us, are you?

Success is the consequence of first having dreams and then acting upon them.

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.