Firsts Quotes - Page 294

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

The first is last, and the last is first.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer.

One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

In order to find, you must first search.

To have more, we must first become more.

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.

Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.

Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!