Quotes about firsts
firsts crime impulse
A first impulse was never a crime. Pierre Corneille
firsts film realizing
The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg. Philippe Falardeau
firsts speak pagan
It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that. Pope Francis
firsts action belief
If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. Peter McWilliams
firsts belief absurd
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd. Peter Abelard
firsts steps admitting
The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved. Pete Seeger
firsts mets
The first one I actually met was George Harrison. Pete Best
firsts lasts last-day
Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life. Paulo Coelho
firsts saws assault
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered. Plutarch
firsts gone intellect
Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
firsts want response
If your first response is, 'I can't do this,' then that is exactly where God wants you to be. Mike Glenn
firsts hollywood film
I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed. Mike Figgis
firsts calcutta persons
If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta. Mother Teresa
firsts sense-of-humor prerequisites
The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor. Richard Bach
firsts facts speak
We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation. Robert Fortune
firsts towns bookstores
The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore. Robert Frost
firsts living-my-life first-time
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? Robert Fulghum
firsts hollywood situation
You have to throw yourself into a situation of trust with these things, especially that first day when you don't know someone and you're on a massive Disney Hollywood movie set. Richard Madden
firsts lucky right-time
I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started. Richard Masur
firsts england directors
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s. Richard E. Grant
firsts saws scared
Jaws,' first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie. Richard Dreyfuss
firsts type feels
I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first. Renee O'Connor
firsts made
Things were first made, then words. Thomas Overbury
firsts wonder should
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off. Thomas Paine
firsts statistics hypothesis
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. Thomas Huxley
firsts serious email
On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work! Vinton Cerf
firsts impossible first-time
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible Sarah Dessen
firsts alive language
It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.
firsts world hours
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
firsts quiet empty
I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
firsts bitter weak
Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.
firsts sometimes charm
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
firsts belief first-amendment
It is true that many Americans find the (Ten) Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. Sandra Day O'Connor