Firsts Quotes · Page 8

Second place is the first loser.

— Dennis Anderson

Hit hard, hit fast and hit often

— William Halsey

Experience first, then intellectualize.

— Carl Orff

I've always been a conservative first.

— Steve Scalise

First sentences are doors to worlds.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My first husband was a serial cheater.

— Caroline Leavitt

[News is] a first rough draft of history.

— Phil Graham

The first and last frosts are the worst.

— George Herbert

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

— Emily Browning

All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.

— David Malouf

You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

— Daniel Tosh

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

— Eudora Welty

The story is the first thing and the last thing,

— Norman Rockwell

We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first.

— Ilona Andrews

The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.

— Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

— Neon Hitch

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible…

— Anonymous

Don't go alone," Lend said, his voice tight with concern. "I'll take Jack." "Oh, wonderful, take the other psychotic guy in your…

— Kiersten White

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last…

— Confucius

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

— Simon Sinek

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

— Alexandre Dumas

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas…

— Richard Branson

Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

— Rita Rudner

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

— Plato

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part…

— Yitzhak Rabin

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate…

— Bill Gates

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been…

— Ally Carter

Here are the bills again, I always dread them a little. They are familiar presences: first in the mail box, then in…

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but…

— Jenny Downham

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have…

— Leigh Steinberg

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money…

— Bernie Sanders

I remember having been with this book [Into the Forest] for a long time, and I remember the moment that she [Patricia…

— Ellen Page

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for…

— Antonin Artaud

When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without…

— Nhat Hanh

We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled…

— John Lennon

Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,…

— Rollo May

I know a lot of people have a hard time talking dirty - they dont know what to say, how to start,…

— Olivia Munn

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time. Now, it…

— Chris Pirillo

The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who…

— Swami Vivekananda