Top 100 At First Quotes
#1. I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.
Charles Comiskey
#2. They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.
Roland Joffe
#3. Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...
Madame De Stael
#4. Love at first sight makes perfect sense because we're all pressed for time.
Bob Smith
#5. Lust and flirting are dangerous because at first they are not noticeable.
Sunday Adelaja
#6. Breaking a dream board is almost like breaking up with your girlfriend. You are super shattered at first. But then once you get another dream board, it's all good.
Shane Dorian
#7. Getting things down to routines and habits takes willpower at first but in the long run conserves willpower," says Baumeister.
Laura Vanderkam
#8. People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn't make sense how they'd laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.
Tablo
#9. Dimly
at first wary that it was merely a dislodged fragment of the dream
she remembered Resurgam. And then, slowly, events returned, not as a tidal wave, or even as as landslide, but as a slow, squelching slippage: a disembowelment of the past.
Alastair Reynolds
#10. [At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!
Elsie De Wolfe
#11. Yes, right, and the earth is flat," I replied. Stupidly, I said it out loud. Everyone else at the table looked at me, taken aback.
"No, Gwenny, the earth is a globe," Caroline kindly told me. "I couldn't believe it at first, either. But apparently it flies through the universe at lightning speed.
Kerstin Gier
#12. At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.
Joe Hill
#13. Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Love at first sight, she wrote giddily to Millie. But of course such feelings weren't 'true' love (that was what she would feel for a child one day), merely the false grandeur of madness.
Kate Atkinson
#15. Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.
Sharon Salzberg
#16. At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it - but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?
Heinrich Heine
#18. Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.
Tahir Shah
#19. I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
Georges Bernanos
#20. She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.
Stephen King
#21. I don't have an ideal type; I'm more of a love-at-first-sight guy.
Onew
#22. How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?
Melinda Cross
#23. Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
Charles Spurgeon
#24. These were quirks, and at first I understood them as little more than strict rules that I could either comply with or get around. Yet I was a curious kid, and the deeper I immersed myself in evangelical theology, the more I felt compelled to mistrust many sectors of society.
J.D. Vance
#25. I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.
Brandon Routh
#26. At first the shifts in gravity from room to room were disturbing, but I soon adapted, subconsciously bracing myself for the drag of Lusus and Hebron and Sol Draconi Septem, unconsciously anticipating the less than l-standard-g freedom of the majority of the rooms. In
Dan Simmons
#27. They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.
Chris Cleave
#28. The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#29. At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true ... that the material I work most with is emotion.
Albert Paley
#30. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.
Paulo Coelho
#31. The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
Ville Valo
#32. No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.
Virgil
#33. Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it was a fancy-dress ball.
Patrick Alexander
#35. He knew now the one thing of importance; and that one thing was at first there, in the drawing room, and then began moving across and came to a standstill at the door. Without turning round he felt the eyes fixed on him, and the smile, and he could not help turning round.
Leo Tolstoy
#36. On the subject of love at first sight, I'm with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.
Stephen King
#37. My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
John James Audubon
#38. You live with something ugly or broken and at first it's all you can see, but then your mind throws a cloak of sorts over it and you don't even realize it's there anymore.
Sharon Pape
#39. I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
John Perry Barlow
#40. But it was the heart of the house beating, faintly at first, then loudly, martially. It dominated the rain.
E. M. Forster
#41. It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Aristotle.
#42. As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.
John Flavel
#43. I don't really have a bad premiere experience. They're exciting at first. I think, when you first get into the business, you're excited about going down the line and seeing what that's like.
Cole Hauser
#44. At first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it's incredible.
Curtis Jackson
#45. At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding.
Abhijit Naskar
#46. As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
#47. Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Frederick William Faber
#48. There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter
if not a paragraph or proper noun
in the history of philosophy.
Jorge Luis Borges
#49. Let love take hold of you and change you. At first through its presence then through its absence.
Elif Shafak
#50. So many things have now become interesting to me because at first I had to do them whether I liked them or not, and thus one is kicked into conquering new countries where one is afterwards at home.
C.S. Lewis
#51. A burning heat warmed my blood.
It was a slow kiss at first - all I meant it to be, but then Echo touched me. Her hands on my face, in my hair. And then she angled her body to mine. Warmth, enticing pressure on all the right parts, and Echo's lips on mine - fireworks.
She became my world.
Katie McGarry
#52. Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.
Keith Rabois
#53. To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.
Bill Lawrence
#54. When I heard 'Moon River', at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it's kind of you and me against the world, and we're going to make it together.
Drew Holcomb
#56. Thucydides, distrusting the clever oratory in the popular assembly, saw a frustrated populace gullibly following those orators who promised solutions which at first sight were pleasant but eventually disastrous. Both
Ernst Breisach
#57. The casino seemed like a good idea at first - right off the highway, filled with drunks and elderly, neither of whom are known for eyesight. But I am feeling crowded and fidgety, aware of the cameras in every corner, the doors that could snap shut.
Gillian Flynn
#58. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
Dorothy Parker
#59. Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.
Russell Brand
#60. Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
Gore Vidal
#61. I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.
Hans Blix
#62. When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
#63. Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
Josh Billings
#64. Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be 'that' [Liberation].
Dada Bhagwan
#65. To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction
Sunday Adelaja
#66. At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
Elizabeth Kenny
#67. If at first you don't succeed, then maybe you have the wrong idea of success, or you're using the wrong standard of measuring it.
Tristan Sherwin
#68. Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.
Richard P. Feynman
#69. She'd put the envelope Tibby had left for her unopened in her underwear drawer. At first it was so she would see it there, and then she tried to cover it so she wouldn't see it there, but it turned out her underwear was too flimsy to cover anything.
Ann Brashares
#70. When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.
Kelly Cutrone
#71. At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
Jane Austen
#72. As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes. You're all happy at first, but then by the end, you're sick of 'em.
Mitch Hedberg
#73. At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened.
J.M. Barrie
#74. It was love at first side'
'It was "Oh my God, he's so cute" at first side.
Rainbow Rowell
#75. Are you guys getting to know each other pretty well? I'm sure it's a little bit awkward at first.'
'Yeah,' I said. 'I'd say we're getting to know each other *really* well. Wouldn't you, Nathan?'
He kicked me under the table and mouthed, *Not funny*.
Kody Keplinger
#77. At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.
Vonda Shepard
#78. As he fell asleep, his mind tormented him with the image of one face; the man he had thought was his father. At first, he tried to push it away, but then he focused on it until he could see nothing else. Inside, the killer stirred.
Joe Craig
#80. At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.
Julia Ormond
#81. There's this charge in the air, and it takes me awhile to get it at first, to really put it all together. It's melancholy.
C.M. Stunich
#82. At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.
Kato Lomb
#85. At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.
Jimmy Chamberlin
#86. Josie glanced back to the TV. Again the players seemed to be celebrating some minor achievement. It offended the eye at first, then Josie grew to understand it. That's what's missing in my life, she thought. The celebration of every single moment, like those fucking idiots on TV.
Dave Eggers
#87. According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.
Hans Von Storch
#88. When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.
Frederick Lenz
#89. Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#90. I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
Boris Johnson
#91. I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.
Giuliana Rancic
#92. When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.
George Herbert
#93. Next morning at first light to Guy's surprise the troopship at last emerged from the haze of myth and was seen to be solidly at anchor beyond the mouth of the harbor.
Evelyn Waugh
#94. At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.
Kristen Schaal
#95. I hated him at first," she said. "And I think you did, too. He was overbearing, and he didn't sympathize with your situation. And then you let yourself be vulnerable, and then he invited another girl to your House. And then he took a stake for you, and he proved himself.
Chloe Neill
#96. The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.
Gerard De Nerval
#97. If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
Leo Rosten
#98. If at first you don't succeed, CHANGE THE RULES
Steven Wolff
#99. At first, I thought the ring might be a fake, a lie. But it was real to me. When I was always waiting for you, while my heart was breaking, and as I was happy, the ring became real to me because of you.
Ji-Eun Song
#100. You do not understand
no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [ ... ] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.
David Adams Richards
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