Top 1200 Be The First Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

To me it's just the knock, man. It's the knock and the groove of the beat. When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural. You know what I'm saying? I feel like people can feel when something is natural.

The first Nardwuar video I watched was, funnily enough, the first Odd Future one.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" "Not always." I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason. "Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first.

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.

The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.

Rosa Parks wasn't the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

If the Chinese are the first to the asteroids or the first to Mars, good for them, as far as I'm concerned.

The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced.

When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

The first album was literally the first 12 songs I've ever written.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

When you're in the middle of it, when you're a kid growing up, you don't think, 'This is my first heartbreak.' You just think, 'My heart is broken.' But then as a parent, you look back, and you see your child go through his or her first heartbreak, and you're realizing, 'Oh my God, this is her first heartbreak.'

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in humble and enduring scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding; his example was edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example everlasting.

This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another.

The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it. My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later. Matter of fact Ying Yang Twins' 'U.S.A. Still United' was the first album, but Mike Jones was the first album I really love.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.

The 2016 election, I'm sure, wasn't the first one to be hacked; it was just the first one that was made public.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

'Mad Men' was one of the first shows where Netflix was the first syndication window.

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

I remember my first albums: Brandy's first album and Usher's 'My Way.'

When I first started in WWE, that was my first time being on social media.

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie!

The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

I got my first migraine on my first day of work in TV in 2001... it was debilitating.

But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft.

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

My first diet was in the first grade! Tuna fish and mustard with yogurt on the side.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

I know they say the first love is the sweetest but that first cut is the deepest

I don't know if he remembers, but the first time I ever met Cudi was the first time I met Kanye. I've never told anyone this, but it was the same day. That was the first time I was around G.O.O.D. Music at all. I was sitting like, 'Man, I'm in the presence of 'Ye and Cudi. This is the art level where I want to be.'

I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the second sentence, and I might be several weeks on the first page instead of writing a draft and trying to figure it out from there.

The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it's where I got my first kiss.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.