Firsts Quotes - Page 196

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

Getting that first knockout against Joe Riggs [in 2006] meant a lot to me then and still does today.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?" Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.

Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

Hitler was the first superstar.

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

And when you start using a lot of psychedelics, and particularly a lot of the natural psychedelics, my experience has been that I come in contact with some very old entities. And these entities have been around for a while, at least since humans first started experimenting with these plants.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

First, I wanted to answer the question I'm most frequently asked: "How did you become who you are?" Well, you had to know John and Angelena Rice.

Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"

If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I like the inspiration of the first take.