Firsts Quotations | Page 4

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a Terrible Towel.

I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

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

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.