Firsts Quotes - Page 270

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

The first thing I ever bought for myself was a green Lacoste shirt.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

Like so many Boomers, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. Im not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.

I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

I remember that Jackie [Stewart] was the first driver wearing flameproof underwear! What it definitely was: it was much more flamboyant. But that doesn't really make it better in my point of view.

An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.