Quotes of: First-thing Keyword

Warm a frozen snake and it will be the first to bite you.

Russian

The first step toward greatness is to be honest.

Traditional

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

Olivia Wilde

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.

French

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

Choke

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Everlost

The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

Finding Tom Connor

For I was sure of one thing, it wasn't always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.

Fist of the Furor

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

Paul Weller

Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life.

Shane Koyczan

It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.

Cindy Crawford

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

Gunther Schuller

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

Birdy

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by t...

Carlisle Floyd

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Amy Tan

Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

James Bay

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Sigmar Polke

I have a question for you. "If your shadow is the second most beautiful thing in the world, which is the first?".

I Love You Too

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

Moments of Being