Firsts Quotes - Page 230

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it’s all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit to people, to the actors, to the crew. It’s peculiar. There’s a Chinese saying: “The first part that rots is the head.” It really does. I’ve seen it.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

Boswell is the first of biographers.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.

You do not need to do anything first to be enlightened.

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.