All Quotes

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
‐‐ Chauncey Depew

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
‐‐ Richard Cecil

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
‐‐ Deborah Eisenberg

The first suit I enjoyed was a Dior suit that I got given. I've never worn anything that fitted that closely - it was akin to 'Oh my God, I had no idea that a suit didn't have to be this wide.' But I do intend to get one made some day.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.
‐‐ Lykke Li

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.
‐‐ Adam Weishaupt

The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.
‐‐ Trey Songz

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
‐‐ Ugo Betti

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.
‐‐ Linda Tripp

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
‐‐ Sally Quinn

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
‐‐ M. H. Abrams

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
‐‐ Friedrich Schleiermacher

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
‐‐ George MacDonald

The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.
‐‐ Johnathan Joseph

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

The first thing Fontana did was get me to change my hair colour from light brown to red, and the songwriter Mitch Murray suggested I change my name from Pauline Matthews to Kiki Dee.
‐‐ Kiki Dee

The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
‐‐ Landon Liboiron

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
‐‐ Swoosie Kurtz

The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in the universe. So ultimately I knew if I was going to handle this in a fictional format, I would have to take a subsection of neuroscience, and that turned out to be the use of neuroscience in criminal courts.
‐‐ Richard Dooling

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
‐‐ Paul Weller

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer

The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.
‐‐ Stephen Furst

The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.
‐‐ Mark-Paul Gosselaar

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.
‐‐ Paula Deen

The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at who was doing stuff in that world. The first I came across was the World Toilet Organization. So one of the first things I did was to go to their annual show in Moscow.
‐‐ Rose George

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.
‐‐ Natalie Morales

The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

The first thing I do in the morning is prepare fresh juice. I have 15 different recipes, which I drink for 15 days consecutively. Then I repeat the recipes from the beginning for the next 15 days of the month. My juices include fruit, vegetables, leafy greens, and even grains.
‐‐ Izabel Goulart

The first thing I do in the morning is take my vitamins. I don't want to say which vitamins; I don't think you should push what you believe in. Doctors should do that, not fashion designers.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

The first thing I do is brush my teeth - we like to start the morning with fresh breath - and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine.
‐‐ Tamara Tunie

The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
‐‐ Randall Park

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.
‐‐ Danny Elfman

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
‐‐ Chuck Close