Firsts Quotes - Page 342

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.

I was the first size 14 model to be featured in an ad in the magazine,I was the first size 14 model on the cover!

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it first. Once in a while there's an English name, too, but it's always Newton.

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

My first real girlfriend broke up with me because she was married already.

The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.