Firsts Quotes - Page 209

That which shrinks must first expand.

I never asked to be born in the first place.

That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.

To be completely featured as human. First of all, man must live with the truth.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

I did do some things different [in John Wick 2], but it's different on basically the same things. Because I have the background from the first film, it was really the first time I was doing judo and jiu-jitsu.

Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food.

In every situation, no matter what first appears. Find the good that is always there, and change that fear to cheer.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.