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.
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
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When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.
When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.
ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it...
In any match, making a lot of first serves is very important, especially for me.
When there's work to be done in Colorado, for Colorado, we should look to skilled Coloradans first.
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.
In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.
The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
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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.
