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 paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.
I wouldn't ever have believed I would marry so young, but it was love at first sight, so there was no point in holding back for the sake of it.
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.
In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Professionally, I made my first film at 20 in a war zone in Kosovo.
I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.
In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.
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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.
