Firsts Quotes

20399 Firsts quotes by 9251 unique authors

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — Anton Chekhov
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story! — Ford Madox Ford
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
First thought, best thought. — Allen Ginsberg
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy
Any work of art must first of all tell a story. — Robert Frost
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder… — Mark Twain
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of… — Dorothy Parker
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… — Anne Lamott
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important… — John Harbaugh
It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the… — Gerard De Nerval
First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And… — Angelina Jolie
Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or… — Molly Ringwald
I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience,… — Ree Drummond
I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I… — Emma Watson
For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows. We talked about it… — Emma Watson
...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige… — Alec Douglas-Home
The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike… — Corey Taylor
In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which… — Jimmy Carter
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World… — David Icke

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