Firsts Quotes - Page 207

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.

Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.

I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

Truth usually stammers at first.

Later is always my first choice.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.