Top 1200 The First Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If I heard a noise at night, I'd think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I'd do was check on my guitar.

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

Every man must know how to cook; this is the first thing that we are taught back home.

Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.

When you first start out, it's a big thing you're always like 'does my voice sound good?'

When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Okay, so, flying,” I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. “Flying is … great. It feels great when you’re doing it. It’s fun. Pure freedom. There’s nothing better.” Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face. “So the first thing we’re going to do,” I told him, “is push you off the roof.

There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.

At 15, I refereed my first match, and I was training at my dad's school even prior to that, so the only thing that I was concerned about - I guess the only thing that made me reluctant and was the reason I was in L.A. and the reason I went to acting school - was I thought maybe I wasn't big enough - physically big enough - to compete with WWE.

When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.

But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

The great thing about "Shoot 'Em Up, Baby" is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

The first thing I bought when I was 14 and started working was a crystal bear. I thought it was so glamorous and sparkly.

I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.

I would love to bring the state of Utah their first championship. I think that's one thing I've always wanted.

Even after doing that TV thing, 'Roswell,' I'm still waiting to see my first UFO.

The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

People panic in the kitchen and they don't need to. The first thing to do is to open a nice bottle of wine and relax.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

Teams that come up, as soon as they realise they're in big trouble the first thing they do is change the manger.

When I first told people the name 'Situation'... they were like, 'That's the best thing I've ever heard.'

I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I discovered, on my first film, that you go through this really intense experience of making a film and then you sit in a little room with a monitor and you reduce the thing to a bunch of silly anecdotes. It's really unfulfilling and I've never really enjoyed listening to them anyway, so I just don't do them.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

I've never been a business person, nor have I ever pretended to understand the first thing about it.

The funny thing I thought was, no matter what, people talked bad about cops. But as soon as something bad happened, when their car got stolen, who was the first person they called? Police officers. They expected them to help out and take care of them to get their stolen car back, and they did. That, to me, was a pretty big thing.

For those wondering how to deal with anxiety and depression, the first thing to consider is what you're putting into your mouth.

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)

I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

I have always loved cashmere and knitwear is the first thing I'm drawn to when shopping - even if I don't need any.

The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you have the story of Adam and Eve and God tells them, "Do whatever you want. The only thing you shouldn't do is eat the apple." What do they do the first thing? They eat the apple. So if you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.