Firsts Quotes · Page 1,288

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an…

— Jodi Picoult

It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do…

— Louis Aragon

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

— Edmund White

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

— Donald Kagan

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so…

— Dylan O'Brien

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

— George Michael

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution…

— Jack Kemp

I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls…

— Natasha Calis

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of…

— Eric Allman

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

— Michael Dolan

Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you…

— Robin Oliveira

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the…

— Lee Tergesen

I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this…

— Kid Rock

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group…

— Jarvis Cocker

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

— Erica Jong

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I…

— Matt de la Pena

One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say…

— Iman Abdulmajid

I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit…

— Wendell Pierce

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of…

— Maya Angelou

Master water first and then paint.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm just really happy to be happy for the first time since I was about 20.

— Gold Panda

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect…

— Elijah Wood

First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which…

— Curtis Hanson

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars…

— Harper Lee