"Firsts" Quotes . Top 34 Short Quotes About "Firsts"

"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Science Fiction #Fiction #Annuals

"Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me."

--- A. E. Waite

#Lucifer #Communicate #May

"It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling."

--- A. E. Waite

#Sight #Known #Wells

"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."

--- A. I. Bezzerides

#High Heels #Rope #Firsts

"For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation."

--- A. J. Green

#People #Mean #Bigger

"You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early."

--- A. J. Hawk

#Mean #Feels #Cutting

"Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Thinking #Dark Clouds #Speech

"Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Asks #Locked #World

"I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go.""

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Thinking #Ordinary Life #Said

"Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Cures #Panic #Meds

"If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Indifference #Wells #Writing

"Music first, music last, music always"

--- A. J. McLean

#Lasts #Firsts

"Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now."

--- A. J. McLean

#Fighting #I Can #Care

"I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?"

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Answers #Happened #Historian

"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#War Of The Worlds #First World War #War

"IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Thinking #Complicated #Tests

"I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Might #People #Incapable

"My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film."

--- A. O. Scott

#Source #May #Adults

"With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Patterns #Might #Steps

"I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Walks #Interiors #Firsts

"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition"

--- A. R. Ammons

#Discourse #Poetry Is #Class

"Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to Danny when he was cutting the movie."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Cutting #Down And #Mind

"My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every time the music is slow I feel that people are going to get up and go out. You get this nervousness. But, to my surprise, people starting singing the song even before it came in. They started singing along a week later, after release, which was very cool."

--- A. R. Rahman

#People #Feels #Get Up

"Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery."

--- A. S. W. Rosenbach

#Scarcity #Young Children #Reason

"I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked."

--- A. Scott Berg

#Book #Firsts #Wilson

"Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us."

--- A. Theodore Tuttle

#Salvation #Covenant #Ordinances

"The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place."

--- A. Whitney Brown

#Said #Forget It #Good Lies

"First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing."

--- A.M. Jenkins

#Lesson Learned #Lessons #Firsts

"If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again."

--- Aaliyah

#Dust #Firsts #Trying

"Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt."

--- Aaron Allston

#Heal #Firsts #Sometimes

"Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent."

--- Aaron Allston

#Fierce #Lawyer #Refuge

"I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that."

--- Aaron Allston

#Failing #When All Else Fails #Fire

"A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'"

--- Aaron Arrowsmith

#Religion #Asks #Proof That God Exists

"Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting."

--- Aaron Ashmore

#Iconic #Moments #Firsts

34 "Firsts" Quotes