Firsts Quotes - Page 272

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

When I first moved to LA and it was the first event that I ever went to, and I thought I was all cute. I thought I was all dressed up, but it was casual. In LA, everything is so casual, so I got so dressed up for nothing.

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.

When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away.

The women on that list are amazing, so to be on it for the first time and have this position is crazy. I'm not one to walk around and strut like Miss Thing, so I'm pretty humbled.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish. This is very like embroidering a cloth, as you have to know where you are with the knots.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

I was a social recluse for most of my life, and so a lot of relationships I've been in have been formed online. I met my first boyfriend online at 15, which culminated in me running away to San Francisco to be with him.

I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very happy doing what I did [escorting] nor was I very talented at it, so perhaps that's what worked to make it boring for me. However it's hard for me to imagine that a lot of young women who would enjoy and be good at being an escort.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.