Firsts Quotes

20399 Firsts quotes by 9251 unique authors

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow. — Paul Horgan
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't… — Dorothy Parker
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one… — Roald Dahl
After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to… — Christie Brinkley
Creators start at the end. First they have an idea of what they want to create. Sometimes this is idea is general, and sometimes it… — Robert Fritz
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are… — Deepak Chopra
I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute… — Unknown Author
I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock. — Barry Venison
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. — Georges Bernanos
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an… — Rudy Rucker
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him… — John Andreas Widtsoe
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first… — Stephen Brookfield
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. — Alberto Korda
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth… — Douglass North
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until… — Chase Jarvis
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of… — Jose Raul Capablanca
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what… — Viswanathan Anand
For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is… — Bent Larsen
I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.' Back when… — Christina Hendricks
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon… — Aaron Siskind
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving… — Sam Abell

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