Top 1200 First Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!

The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple “first” things.

When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway reality, sex is the only real thing. Love has two possibilities: either it falls into sex and becomes a bodily thing, or it rises into devotion and becomes a thing of the spirit. Love is just in between. Just below it is the abyss of sex, and beyond it is the open sky - the infinite sky of devotion.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. If it still doesn't work out, success may not be your thing.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper."

After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You.

The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.

I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do. William Sledd was my first YouTube obsession. He was so unapologetically himself, and just had fun talking to his audience about things that interested him. I thought - if he could do it, why couldn't I?

I loved 'BattleDome.' It was the first thing I ever auditioned for, and I was so crazy in the audition that I knew I had the part.

When you believe in what you’re doing, that’s the first thing. And you have to be resilient, because people are going to try to knock you down.

The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.

'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.

At the end of the season, the important thing is to be in first place. It doesn't matter if you score 15 or 20.

The first thing I do when I start a role is I look to see where we're similar. What do you get for nothing, you know?

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.

When I first came to London I thought there'd be this amazing music scene, but I was quite let down by how little was going on and how few ideas there were in music. Bands were writing songs that had no melody, and I wondered, why is that, melody is the most important thing in a song. It's the thing that sticks in your head.

When you look at all of the problems that are streaming and flowing over that border, the first thing we have to do is secure it. Job number one.

I always work out first thing in the morning, because if I don't, it won't get done. To me, it really comes down to my priorities. Because those are the things that are important to me: my spirituality, centering with the universe and God, and then getting my workout in and putting my health first. That makes everything else feel easy. Anything that comes up, I feel like I can conquer it throughout the day.

It was super stressful at first because it is my first child. The first minute I saw her and the first minute I heard her cry is really when things kicked in. You just become a mom and you roll with it.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Da, hes waiting for me to tell the two of you our news first, then he'll join me." He cocked a dark brow at her. "And why would he not come to your mother and me first and ask permission to handfast with you, as is the honorable thing to do?" She cocked her own brow, mirroring his expression perfectly. "Because he's not stupid. Anyone with any sense would be scared of you two. But even scared to death, he wanted to come with me. I wouldn't let him. I knew I needed to talk to you alone first.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

I think I'm so much of a better driver than I was when I first came to Duke; that's the biggest thing for me.

The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his .

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

The main thing is to score a goal in the first half. Then everything will be possible.

The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up.

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.

The first time I went behind the camera was in 1993. I felt, 'This is my thing,' and I knew that someday I'd make a feature.

The proper thing to do would have been to first ask my consent before remixing 'Mungda.'

How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.

Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.

If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.