Firsts Quotes - Page 50

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.

The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

God is the very first piece of the Christian Story because the Story is all about Him. He is the central character, not us. The Story is not so much about God's plan for our lives as it is about our lives for God's plan.

In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.

I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.

Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."