Firsts Quotes - Page 299

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

fang will be the first to die

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'

I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.

If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.