Firsts Quotes - Page 278

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand.

Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

When I first came out with Blue, everyone compared me to Patsy Cline, which is the biggest honor, 'cause I've always looked up to her.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it's all going to turn out.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.