Firsts Quotes - Page 185

Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves.

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

The first blow is half the battle.

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components... the syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation. The first of these is interpreted by the semantic component; the second, by the phonological component.

I was freaking out. I had my first pimple and I was like, what is this? I didn't know what to do with myself. Now it's all gone, but it's so weird, what you put inside of your body.

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne