Firsts Quotes - Page 199

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.

Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words...to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.

What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.

I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

I only finished first grade.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

If someone's pointing a gun at you, you get a surge of adrenaline, but it would be a lot better if they weren't pointing the gun at you in the first place.

This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.