Firsts Quotes - Page 200

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

My first wife was a theater person.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.

If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.

I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t?

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and men afterwards make it the model upon which their theories are framed.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.