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.

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.

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

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.

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

My first love was the sound of guitar.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

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.

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

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 first casualty when war comes is truth.

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

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.

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

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.

A first love always occupies a special place.

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

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

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.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light