Firsts Quotes - Page 237

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

Lovers, like dying men, may well At first disorder'd be, Since none alive can truly tell What Fortune they must see.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown

The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

When you have a big problem to solve, break it down to smaller ones first.

I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.

You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I’d been on the island with Gilligan, he’d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)