Firsts Quotes - Page 253

The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It uses some experimental techniques but in the end, I would not say that it is experimental. I'm not sure why. I do a lot of writing on my own, and I have always just written this way.

The economic part is the one that came out first because there were some problems about which the press spoke a lot.

It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after.

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it

I was always sure the Bundesliga was the right choice for me. My first season was solid, if unspectacular, so maybe I would have preferred it not to be so hard at the beginning, but I've worked very hard to get to this point and want to get even better now.

I can't relate to Mansfield or Monroe. The only one I can relate to is Bardot. First of all, there's a certain physical similarity between us. Second of all, she was very strong--she didn't have that affected sexuality.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.