Firsts Quotes - Page 188

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

That's the storyboard that we have in the beginning [of Valerian]. It's an easy shot. It's just a spaceship coming in. That's the first layout. On the first layout, we see the timing of the shot and the speed. It starts to get some shadows, and we see that everything is moving in the back.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

Gabbe jumped up and seized the cocanut first, giving its contents a sniff. "Arriane, she has just been through a trama," she scolded. Arriane tossed her shoulders back. "Precisely why she needs something with a kick," she argued, holding the tray possessively while she and Gabbe engaged in a stare-down. "Fine," Arriane said, looking away from Gabbe.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.

I get along really well with Lars [von Trier] but definitely during our first meetings I was feeling him out and he definitely says some things that are inappropriate and then you kind of get his sense of humour. I really enjoy him. He's one of my favourite people I've met now. So, he's pretty great.