Firsts Quotes - Page 215

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

For the first movie, they had the girls in one hotel and the boys in another hotel. Then, we found out that they actually preferred their hotel, so we moved over there and all hell broke loose.

First we love within, then we love the world.

It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day!

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

Business first, then pleasure.

Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

I never thought of serving as a conflict of interest, that would have been a luxury! I just needed something to survive. Initial needs have to be met first, and then later things like patriotism come in.