Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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Every moment must be first known and then savored.
-- Anne Rice -
Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?
-- Anne Stuart -
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.
-- Annie Besant -
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
-- Annie Dillard -
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
-- Annie Parisse -
On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."
-- Annika Sorenstam -
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.
-- Ansen Dibell -
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
-- Anthea Turner -
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury -
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
-- Anthony Doerr -
No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,†browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
-- Anthony Lane -
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
-- Antisthenes -
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
-- Anton Chekhov -
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.
-- Anton Chekhov -
For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.
-- Anton Corbijn -
When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake―and if he is truly sorry about what he has done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.
-- Antoni Tapies -
As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!
-- Antonia Fraser -
I have to be a father first and a husband first.
-- Antonio Davis -
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
-- Antonio Gaudi -
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
-- Antonio Gaudi
