Firsts Quotes - Page 91

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

...smile first, then speak.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.

One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.