Firsts Quotes - Page 222

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."

That first movie I did, Lucas [1986], was probably the closest to me. And Beetlejuice a little bit, in the sense that I did look like that. All they did was like put a little white powder here.

The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

Every offense is not a hate at first.

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.