Firsts Quotes - Page 214

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

Jazz was my first love.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

People often ask me what happened to my first husband? And I say, I killed him.

Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.

To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.

But one always returns to one's first loves.

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.

I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.