Firsts Quotes - Page 327

The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.

My strength is basically my get off. It is overpowering. I can get after the quarterback on first, second and third down. I pride myself on being an every down guy.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

The funny thing is that Sydney, who worked on the first film [Tron], developed a bike that had an exposed rider, but they couldn't do it because the computers weren't fast enough, so they gave it a roof, which became the iconic one. Ironically what we do now is basically what they envisioned in the first one but couldn't do technically. I mean this a full on homage in every aspect.

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others

Study first, play afterwards.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

My first open mic was fantastic. I crushed. And my second mic was as bad as my first one was good.

I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall.

I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when... So, yeah, for the first, 'Mass Romantic,' I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again.