Firsts Quotes - Page 186

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first.

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too.

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

When I first started out, I said to myself, if this doesn't happen there will be something else that I can do. That seemed possible because I knew how to do so many different kinds of jobs.

For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

I definitely think the first works best.

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

I like to read the ending first.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

My first Mongolia trip made me look at the world differently

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to see if I have the rhythm right. That's why my first drafts take a really long time.

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.