Quotes on First

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

Author: Bud Abbott

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

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

Author: Floyd Abrams

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Author: Dean Acheson

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Author: Joseph Addison

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.

Author: Hasil Adkins

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

Author: Aeschylus

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

Author: Casey Affleck

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Author: Amos Alcott

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Author: Thomas Aldrich

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

Author: Tatyana Ali

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

Author: Debbie Allen

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Author: Fred Allen

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Author: Hervey Allen

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

Author: Richard Allen

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.

Author: Richie Allen

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

Author: Chris Allsburg

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Author: Aaron Allston

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Author: Aaron Allston

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

Author: June Allyson

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Author: A. Ammons

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

Author: Wally Amos

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

Author: Kevin Anderson

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

Author: Kevin Anderson

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

Author: Loni Anderson

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

Author: Margaret Anderson

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Author: Marian Anderson

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Author: Walter Anderson

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Author: Francesca Annis

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

Author: Piers Anthony

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

Author: Piers Anthony

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

Author: Shiri Appleby

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

Author: Sergio Aragones

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

Author: Tom Araya

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

Author: Dario Argento

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Author: Aristotle

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Author: Aristotle

First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.

Author: Adam Arkin

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Author: Lance Armstrong

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

Author: Will Arnett

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

Author: Owen Arthur

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.

Author: William Ashley

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

Author: Shawn Ashmore

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

Author: Michael Aspel

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

Author: John Audubon

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

Author: Mary Austin

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

Author: Tracy Austin

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Author: Richard Bach

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

Author: Sebastian Bach

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

Author: Randy Bachman

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Author: Francis Bacon

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

Author: Kevin Bacon

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

Author: Michael Badnarik

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Author: Gamaliel Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Author: Pearl Bailey

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Author: Pearl Bailey

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

Author: Nicholson Baker

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Author: James Baldwin

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

Author: Hans Balthasar

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Author: Hans Balthasar

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

Author: George Bancroft

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

Author: Lester Bangs

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.

Author: Dennis Banks

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.

Author: Harry Banks

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Author: Harry Banks

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

Author: Haley Barbour

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Author: Clive Barker

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Author: John Barlow

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

Author: Roy Barnes

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Author: James Barrie

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

Author: Peter Bart

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

Author: Derek Barton

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

Author: Mario Batali

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

Author: Gregory Bateson

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

Author: Standing Bear

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

Author: Ulrich Beck

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

Author: Michael Behe

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

Author: Adrian Belew

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner."

Author: William Bell

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author: Robert Benchley

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.

Author: Roberto Benigni

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Author: Arnold Bennett

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

Author: Jonathan Bennett

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

Author: George Bentham

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

Author: Bruce Beresford

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

Author: Hans Berger

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

Author: George Berkeley

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

Author: Marion Berry

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

Author: Jessica Biel

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

Author: Buffalo Bill

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

Author: Max Bill

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Author: Harry Blackmun

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

Author: Nina Blackwood

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

Author: Ruben Blades

My first album is playful.

Author: Mary Blige

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

Author: Kurtis Blow

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

Author: Kurtis Blow

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Author: Niels Bohr

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

Author: William Bolcom

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Author: Erma Bombeck

The First Amendment means everything to me.

Author: Julian Bond

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

Author: Lizzie Borden

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.

Author: Jonathan Brandis

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Author: Bertolt Brecht

Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that's disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don't want to see that happen.

Author: Drew Brees

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

Author: Beau Bridges

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

Author: Richard Briers

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Author: John Bright

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

Author: Harold Brodkey

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Author: Albert Brooks

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Author: Heywood Broun

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

Author: Aaron Brown

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

Author: Chris Brown

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

Author: James Brown

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

Author: Jonathan Brown

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Author: Robert Browning

When trying to locate something, search your mind first.

Author: Craig Bruce

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.

Author: Craig Bruce

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Author: Warren Buffett

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Author: Charles Bukowski

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

Author: Sitting Bull

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

Author: Sandra Bullock

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

Author: Wilfred Burchett

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

Author: Wilfred Burchett

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

Author: Julie Burchill

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Author: Michael Burgess

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

Author: James Burke

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Author: William Burroughs

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

Author: Lance Burton

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Author: Robert Burton

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

Author: Steve Buscemi

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

Author: George Bush

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Author: Kate Bush

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.

Author: Sophia Bush

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.

Author: Gerard Butler

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Author: Julius Caesar

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Author: John Cage

I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.

Author: Nicolas Cage

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

Author: Maria Callas

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Author: Giraldus Cambrensis

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

Author: Julia Cameron