Firsts Quotes - Page 34

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

The first time I had sex, I didn't know what I was doing. It was a relief when the whole thing was over after just 45 minutes.

Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.

Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.

After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.