Quotes of: First-phase Keyword

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz

'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.

James Fenton

If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.

Lynda Resnick

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Europe has achieved peaceful political union for the first time ever: They're using this unprecedented state of affairs to harmonize the curvature of bananas.

Accelerando

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.

All the Ways Moosh Failed Me

I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

I had to take the first step for myself.

If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

People and things would continue to exist in a world where I did not, and no one would ever think of me. And, if that was the case, then what was the point of existing in the first place?

Kiss Me First

Because seeing someone’s heart ripped out, presumably for the first time, is something a person should accept naturally, like finding out there’s no Santa Clause.

Reaper

I wouldn't want to get you into trouble." Gordon hesitated still... Maddie laughed carelessly. "Wouldn't be the first time. Probably wouldn't be the last.

The Royal Ranger

People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.

Smog City

The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’t work out the first time.

The Summer of Skinny Dipping

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Shoeless Joe

When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

My First Summer in the Sierra

Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)

Ninety-Three

Famous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing; none of it is ever very interesting though.

The New Days: The First Son