Firsts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
-- A. A. Allen -
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
-- A. A. Gill -
One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
-- A. B. Simpson -
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
-- A. E. Hotchner -
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
-- A. E. Waite -
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
-- A. E. Waite -
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
-- A. R. Ammons -
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
-- A. Scott Berg -
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
-- Aaliyah -
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
-- Aaron Allston -
Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
-- Aaron Allston -
I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
-- Aaron Baddeley -
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
-- Aaron Hill -
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
-- Aaron Hoopes -
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
-- Aaron Levie -
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
-- Aaron Paul -
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
-- Aaron Paul -
Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,
-- Aaron Rodgers -
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
-- Abel Korzeniowski -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
-- Abraham Cowley -
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
-- Abraham Flexner -
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.
-- Abraham J. Williams -
I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Being the first born gives you great patience.
-- Abraham Verghese -
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
-- Abraham Verghese -
If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
-- Abu Bakr -
The best of the people are the first to greet others.
-- Abu Umamah al Bahili -
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
-- Ace Frehley -
I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.
-- Ace Hood -
To create is, first and foremost, to create time.
-- Achille Mbembe -
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable
-- Ada Lovelace -
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
-- Adam Ant -
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
-- Adam Gopnik -
There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.
-- Adam Grant -
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
-- Adam McKay -
Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.
-- Adam Peterson -
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
-- Adam Smith -
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
-- Adam Smith -
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
-- Adam Smith -
My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.
-- Adepero Oduye -
And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
-- Adolf Galland -
To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
-- Adolf Hitler -
[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with...
-- Adolf Hitler -
For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
-- Adolphe Thiers -
The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.
-- Adora Svitak -
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
-- Adrian Lyne -
I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
-- Adrienne von Speyr -
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
-- Aeschylus -
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
-- Aeschylus -
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
-- Aesop -
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
-- African Spir -
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
-- Agnes Denes -
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
-- Agnes Repplier -
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
-- Agnes Smedley -
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.
-- Ahmed Zaki Yamani -
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
-- Ahmet Ertegun -
I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.
-- Ai Yazawa -
All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.
-- Aime Martin -
Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
-- Aimee Mullins -
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson -
In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.
-- Akira Toriyama -
It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
-- Akon -
This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.
-- Al Arbour -
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
-- Al Pacino -
It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
-- Al Ries -
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
-- Alain de Benoist -
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
-- Alain Resnais -
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
-- Alan Alda -
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
-- Alan Ball -
News is only the first rough draft of history.
-- Alan Barth -
We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.
-- Alan Chadwick -
Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.
-- Alan Cohen -
I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
-- Alan Cumming -
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
-- Alan Kay -
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.
-- Alan Keyes -
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
-- Alan Keyes -
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
-- Alan King -
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
-- Alan King -
First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.
-- Alan Kulwicki
