Firsts Quotes - Page 260

But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."

My best takes are my first two takes.

When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."

First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.

What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?

This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

Family is always first.

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.

I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.

For my wife and I, our first child was really easy to have, but our second one was really hard to have. We had to go to a lot of fertility clinics and do that whole thing.

is love at first sight truly possible?

I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.