Firsts Quotes - Page 225

If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

You have to first experience what you want to express

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

We're like brothers [with Tommy Lee] - we argue, we don't talk to each other for a while, and then we forget why we were even arguing in the first place.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.