Firsts Quotes - Page 193

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’ if you follow me. It is more of a search for something, in which, being blindfolded, you develop the tactile, the olfactory, the auditory senses —and thus see for the first time.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.

First of all, for me the secret is in the ingredients. You don't need to start spending fortunes on organic foods and start becoming way over budget. The better the ingredient, the littler that needs doing to it.

My first wife didn't like to fly, either.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Fear first created the gods.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

As I talk to film students now especially, I say, "The easiest job you'll ever get is to try to make your first film." That's the easy one to get, is the first film because nobody knows whether you can make a film or not.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?

It is said that Indians were sometimes named for the first thing they saw when they were born. Makes you wonder why there aren't more Indians named Hairy Pussy, doesn't it?