Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

George Washington

It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Neale Donald Walsch

First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.

Miles Davis

First you imitate, then you innovate.

Jose Bergamin

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Joni Mitchell

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

Jonathan Swift

You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.

Kelis

Trust your first instinct.

Katy B

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

Katie Aselton

There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.

Joe Torre

You have to fix something when it first appears.

Jimmy Carter

This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

John C. Maxwell

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

James Patterson

fang will be the first to die

James Patterson

So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.

Ellen Goodman

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Eric S. Raymond

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

Epictetus

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

Emily Dickinson

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.

Emile Durkheim

The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.

Hermann Hesse

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

Ho Chi Minh

You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.

Kurt Cobain

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

Kurt Cobain

I'll be the first to admit we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack

Khalil Gibran

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

Kenneth Noland

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.