The First Quotes
Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.
For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.
Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.
The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing.
For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind
From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion
I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.
I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.
Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.
The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.
A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.
I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.
Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.
I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.
The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.
