Firsts Quotes - Page 258

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

Your first attempt will be terrible.... Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft..... Whenever someone sends me a manuscript and says, 'It just flowed out of me,' I usually think: Let it flow back into you for a while.

I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

First and foremost: Feed people.

I was always apologizing for yesterday's behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it's good being straight. As I did when I first got high. It's a high to be straight because I was getting loaded every day.

I like the word f-k. F-king deal with it and move on to the first f-king question you have.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.