Firsts Quotes - Page 233

It's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

There you are," he said when she bobbed up. "I was getting worried." "What are you doing?" "Waiting till you're ready to drown." He smiled and eased back down on the seat. "And then I'm going to save your life. Dan did it for Phoebe and I'm going to do it for you." "Dan didn't try to murder her first!" she screamed. "I go the extra mile.

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you do something and you get praised for it, you think, "Oh, right, well I'll do that." From then on, I always thought I'd be a writer. I thought novels at first, and then I sort of naturally drifted into TV.