Firsts Quotes · Page 11

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

— O. Henry

Let's hope the first comes first.

— Philip Roth

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

— William Wordsworth

In war, truth is the first casualty.

— Anonymous

I was Google's first woman engineer.

— Marissa Mayer

The first step is the hardest.

— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

I'm a songwriter first.

— Carole King

A good first impression can work wonders

— Anonymous

The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.

— Ralph Kiner

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

— Simon Schama

Leadership is about being a servant first.

— Allen West

There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.

— Thaddeus Golas

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

— Bill Watterson

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

— Elfriede Jelinek

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

— Richard Whately

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything…

— Tim McGraw

But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because…

— Steven Tyler

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'

— Paul Newman

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction…

— Alan Parsons

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

— John Ruskin

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am…

— Richard Thompson

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we…

— Stanley Hauerwas

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence…

— Voltaire

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City.…

— Frank Miller

I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You…

— Mat Kearney

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more…

— Barbara Tuchman

It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a…

— Todd Phillips

My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but…

— Neill Blomkamp

The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years…

— Laura Benanti

In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express…

— Anonymous

The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the…

— Ken Wilber

Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing…

— Laura Miller

The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of…

— Anais Nin

ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther.…

— Richelle Mead