Firsts Quotes - Page 317

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.

I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first one out there actively doing something to solve a problem then you'll naturally fall into a leadership role.

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops - and that style is coming back anyway - so I loved that!

I was kind of scared at first to do that [vice-over] because when you're on set, a lot of the things going on around you - the environment and playing off other actors - and that's what makes it easier and helps you to be in your character. So, realizing you're not going to have that and you're going to be secluded in this booth, it's like, "How am I going to be a character when I'm just in these walls?"

I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.