Firsts Quotations

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.”“After I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

A first love always occupies a special place.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

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

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

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

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

For the first time in my life, I want the right to get married. I've met somebody who meets the criteria of what I've always imagined in and wanted from a partner - someone to marry and to bring children into the world with

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.