Firsts Quotes - Page 213

Be the first to say, "Hello".

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series.

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.

I will never blame a fighter if he doesn't fight me because he takes care of his own interest first, and prioritize the interests of his family first, that's completely normal.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.