First Part Quotes

#1. We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

Robert Fortune

#2. Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.

Ogden Nash

#3. Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other's company even for thinking ("freedom of the pen")=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.

Hannah

#4. My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.

Javier Bardem

#5. Finding love is a two-part process. The first part is to find the right person. The second part is to be the right person.

Mavis Leno

#6. The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

Assata Shakur

#7. The first part of emotional healing is being limbically known - having someone with a keen ear catch your melodic essence. (170)

Thomas Lewis

#8. I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."

Donna Tartt

#9. It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.

Jayna Hefford

#10. It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent.

Philippe Perrin

#11. The first part of success is "Get-to-it-iveness"; the second part of success is "Stick-to-it-iveness".

Orison Swett Marden

#12. My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

Daniel Pipes

#13. For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

Mike Davidson

#14. And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

Kate Atkinson

#16. Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

George Ade

#17. When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Plutarch

#18. I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.

Jonathan Brown

#19. People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.

Dan Bejar

#20. If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end ...

Angela Johnson

#21. I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.

Michael Chabon

#22. I always had plenty of ideas. I didn't exactly have them. They grew - little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

Carol Emshwiller

#23. Every story began with the same claim: If you hear the first part, you'll want to hear the second. If you hear the story today, you'll come back tomorrow for another. If you hear the story tonight, you'll think about it as you sleep.

Donna Jo Napoli

#24. Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.

Jean De La Bruyere

#25. Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

John C. Maxwell

#26. On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one of the characters - an irritating peripheral character- who keeps showing up in the main protagonist's life.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#27. So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

Christopher Durang

#28. I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Alan Ball

#29. You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Isabel Allende

#30. After last night, he felt that the first part, his fantasy of being with her, was just am empty wish.

Terry Goodkind

#31. The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

Pedro Almodovar

#32. She stood on the edge of night, that sliver of gray between darkness and dawn, that razor-thin line separating the first part of her life and whatever lay ahead.

Anne Blankman

#33. Locomotive, Jimmy read. He knew these words. The first part meant 'crazy'. The second part was a person's reason for doing something.

Hugh Howey

#34. I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.

Alain Prost

#35. When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

Trent Reznor

#36. Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

Trent Reznor

#37. 'Expect the best, but prepare for the worst.' I'm good at the first part, crap at the second.

Justine Larbalestier

#38. For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#39. This first part may be a little rough.' He waved a hand and did his best to appear as if he'd had enormous experience with levitating buildings.

Michael Pryor

#40. Go is the first part of the word Gospel.
It should be the watchword of every true follower of Christ.
It should be emblazoned on the banners of the church.

Billy Graham

#41. The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your passions.

Rod Dreher

#42. That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you changed as it changed. We never went back to the Vorarlberg and neither did the rich.

Ernest Hemingway,

#43. If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he
had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.

Annie Proulx

#44. When two kids came along, I couldn't see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.

Peter Hambleton

#45. The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

Sam Keen

#46. Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Ernest Hemingway,

#47. The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract
Look, why should we quarrel about a thing like this? We'll take it right out, eh?

Groucho Marx

#48. I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.

Abbas Kiarostami

#49. I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

Pete Wentz

#50. I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

Jane Fonda

#51. The first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

Jacqueline Wilson

#52. The lexis is a measure of shared experience, which comes from interconnectedness. The number of users of the language forms only the first part of the equation: jumping in four centuries from 5 million English speakers to a billion.

James Gleick

#53. The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like ... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.

Tony Earley

#54. I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

Adam McKay

#55. My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'

Zendaya

#56. The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

Pablo Picasso

#57. The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

John Calvin

#58. The first part of my plan is to write until I die.

The second part is to not die.

Will Carver

#59. Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it, because nobody else will.

I tend to agree with the first part.

Will Fetters

#60. Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a man is in a pleasant state of mind, everything went well and easily. p 1128

Leo Tolstoy

#61. The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

Aaron Paul

#62. I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!

Joe Namath

#63. The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.

Sam Hawksmoor

#64. We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people are behaving the way they are. Behavior is a result so we have to understand that before there is a result something is going on in here in the brain.

John Assaraf

#65. Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Samuel Johnson

#66. Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.

Miriam Toews

#67. There's a Chinese saying: "The first part that rots is the head." It really does. I've seen it.

Thomas Bidegain

#68. The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#69. By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

Roald Dahl

#70. DURING THE FIRST PART of your life, you only become aware of happiness once you have lost it. Then an age comes, a second one, in which you already know, at the moment when you begin to experience true happiness, that you are, at the end of the day, going to lose it.

Michel Houellebecq

#71. What are you thinking, Amos?" "Nothing real subtle. Figure we hop outside, kill a few assholes that need killing, patch stuff up when we're done with the first part." Naomi

James S.A. Corey

#72. For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas.

George Smoot

#73. The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

#74. How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

Margaret Heffernan

#75. The very first part in healing is shattering the silence,

Erin Merryn

#76. What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Jules Michelet

#77. For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

Halle Berry

#78. All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#79. I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!

Laura Leighton

#80. She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.

Ellen Burstyn

#81. When I asked her what she'd thought of Pride and Prejudice, she only wondered aloud how anyone could have written a novel set in the first part of the nineteenth century without once mentioning Napoleon.

Michelle Cooper

#82. It is much the best way ... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

William Billings

#83. Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

S.E. Hinton

#84. My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.

Nicki Chapman

#85. The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

George Shearing

#86. A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Louis L'Amour

#87. I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

Martha Wainwright

#88. That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do - so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.

Catherynne M Valente

#89. His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.

Thomas Paine

#90. In the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#91. I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

Stephen Harper

#92. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.

Toni Sorenson

#93. It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

Neil Patrick Harris

#94. I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.

Alexa Von Tobel

#95. I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

Vanessa Morgan

#96. Across a sea of asphalt and cars, was where I caught my first glimpse of the woman who would do the impossible and awaken a long dead part of me.

K.I. Lynn

#97. When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.

George Clooney

#98. The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

Auguste Rodin

#99. Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.

Gareth Gates

#100. This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!

Shannon Hale