Firsts Quotes - Page 289

I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

The Japanese always started with the market share of components first. So one would dominate, let's say, sensors, and someone else would dominate memory, and someone else hard drives and things of that sort.

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.

Work first, and then rest.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.