Firsts Quotes - Page 62

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.