Firsts Quotes - Page 58

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

Treat everyone like it's still your first job and that we're all just happy to be here.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary.

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

Touch is the first language we speak.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.

The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.'

He who laughs last didn't get it in the first place.

So sweet love seemed that April morn, when first we kissed beside the thorn, so strangely sweet, it was not strange we thought that love could never change.

I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

Don't go into business with the sole objective of making lot of money. If you put service, quality, and customer satisfaction first-the money will follow.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.