Firsts Quotes - Page 345

If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where my mother made her very first professional appearance in London, was at the Globe Theater.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.

I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then. So I do have shares in my pension but I have tended to invest in specific projects that include property and private companies that have been very well researched by my advisers.

I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I just thought his reporting seemed familiar.

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

People think the leadoff spot is a big deal. I tell people you're going to lead off the first inning, and after that, you can be a No. 4 hitter or No. 3 hitter.

Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage (including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.