Firsts Quotes · Page 98

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material

— Robin Williams

Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation.

— Lynn Tilton

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team.

— Marcello Lippi

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

— David Campese

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

— Anonymous

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

— Tim Federle

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

— Harry Mathews

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

— John Milton

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.

— Ben Parr

They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.

— Bonnie Tyler

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

— Donald Kagan

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

— Dave Eggers

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

— Paul Greengrass

What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?

— Ben Folds

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

— H. L. Mencken

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

— Anne Lamott

My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.

— Apolo Ohno

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

— Howard Wilkinson

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

— Bertrand Russell

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

— Anonymous

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

— Andy Rooney

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife.

— Jay Mohr

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

— Susan Kay

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

— Alice Sebold

I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)

— Groucho Marx

First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.

— Jose Garcia Villa

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

— Anonymous

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

— Eli Roth

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

— Kurt Busch

I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

— Naomi Judd

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

— Gordon Livingston

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

— Anonymous

“The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.”

— Edward Young

When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.

— LL Cool J

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

— Julia Cameron