First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was...
When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.
My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
When I first started doing influencer marketing for my company Due, I lost my shorts with literally no return on my investment.
I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
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One quote pushes past personal firsts into a civic claim about equal standing under the constitution, which broadens the theme beyond simple nostalgia. Related pages include First Impression and First Step.
