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.
My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
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I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.
'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940,...
One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which I loved.
I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.
I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.
Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
We should put hardworking families first by voting on legislation to create jobs, raise wages, provide equal pay for women, invest in education, protect voting rights, and pass comprehensive immigration reform.
No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.
The government shouldn't step in at the first stage and create land banks. Industry should buy the land as much as they can, and if they get stuck, then the government should step in.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little.
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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.
