The First Thing Quotes (page 21)

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• thankful you
• thankful
• thank you

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'. Haley Reinhart

• time
• look
• looking back

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor. Rick Baker

• world
• thy
• smashed

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. Ernest Hemingway

• winning
• independent
• training

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible William S. Burroughs

• fear
• effort
• firstly

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt

• single
• acceptance
• doubt

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

• work
• lasted
• oneness

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. T. S. Eliot

• victory
• greatest
• mostly

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. Plato

• appearance
• deceiving
• firstly

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many. Phaedrus

• blue
• real
• king

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. Robin Trower

• writing
• car
• thoughts

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing. Jerry Seinfeld

• horse
• liked
• want

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Jackie Kennedy

• kindness
• country
• men

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind. Chief Joseph

• imagination
• sky
• words

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire taht meant 'Flee.' The sound of a tiger about to pounce. Who would worry about these things? And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. For a long time, that was the only word the baby... Amy Tan

• marvel
• thoughts
• street

If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same vein, a vein I had struck when I was a child and went down in the street for the first time alone and there frozen into the dirty ice of the gutter lay a dead cat, the first time I had looked at death and grasped it. From that moment I knew what it was to be isolated: every object, every living thing and every dead thing led its independent... Henry Miller