Firsts Quotes - Page 333

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.

I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!

I didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room. (Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one.

Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little. I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.

A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."