Top 100 First Thing Quotes
#1. According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.
Jay Leno
#2. all human beings need to keep this energy in movement. So, the first thing one must understand is that it is made up of two extremes, which walk side-by-side during the entire act: relaxation and tension.
Paulo Coelho
#3. So the first thing that went on was to decide ... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
James Stockdale
#4. The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
L. Neil Smith
#5. Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It's not necessarily about falling in love.
Seamus Dever
#6. The first thing people lose on a diet is their sense of humor. Keep it fun. Keep it light.
Gunnar Peterson
#7. The first thing you should know is that soulmates are real. They are not just some romantic idea. We are made for one person and one person alone.
Ashley Stoyanoff
#8. I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press release that said slope style was gonna be included in the Olympics. And the first thing I did was call up my coach Mike Hanley, and we were ecstatic.
Nick Goepper
#9. The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.
Marion Cotillard
#10. I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.
Curtis Stone
#11. Girlie, you don't have to tell us what happened, but I'm telling you this. First thing we're doing is getting you karate lessons. No man or boy will ever put his hands on my baby girl again," my father says.
N. Kuhn
#12. Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe he'll shoot at us again. I was hoping someone would shoot at me today. That was the first thing I said when I got up: Boy, I hope I get shot at today.
Janet Evanovich
#13. I can't stand it. I can't stand someone being embarrassed. I don't know why. If someone slips over and the first thing they do is look around, I pretend I haven't seen it.
Ricky Gervais
#14. The very first thing I look at on a woman is her toes.
Tommy Lee
#16. The baby intern scaled the walls of her crib and spent most of the weekend getting up to speed on the negotiations with Senecorp so you'd have it first thing this morning. You'll find her sucking her thumb at Alice's desk.
Joey W. Hill
#17. In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
Simon Hoggart
#18. So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs ...
William O'Neil
#19. I'll walk up to a woman, I'll say the first thing that comes to mind: 'Hey, you hungry?'
Gabriel Iglesias
#20. When you bow down your head to pray
Let the first thing that you say
Be a lowly word and meek:
I admit that I am weak.
John Piper
#21. I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.
Hans Zimmer
#22. She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.
Terry Pratchett
#23. Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.
Cate Blanchett
#24. By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.
Sam Harris
#25. Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head
Maya Deren
#26. I go to bed, lie there and think of you. Wake up, you're the first thing on my mind.
Oh God.
I liked that.
Oh God.
I couldn't like that.
Kristen Ashley
#27. I couldn't help but notice no one was grabbing toilet paper. That would be the first thing I grabbed if I thought it was the end of the world
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#28. The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
Robert Wilson
#29. Me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.
David Levithan
#30. If I get out of this, the first thing I'm doing is enrolling in a Spanish class.
Holly S. Roberts
#31. The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
#32. The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
Matt Taibbi
#34. The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.
Josh Bowman
#35. Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.
Nils-Axel Morner
#36. It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.
Mary Harron
#37. I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
Jami Attenberg
#38. Dear 2600: Please help me to learn how to become an elite one day.
The first thing to learn is never to use the word elite as a noun. In fact, don't even use it as an adjective. It's radically lame.
Emmanuel Goldstein
#39. Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
Sarah Dessen
#40. When I was a very small child I went to a new play group. The first thing I did was run over to a little tot with incredibly chubby cheeks and sink my teeth right into them.
Rae Morris
#41. As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.
Jason Clarke
#42. Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#43. If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion
#44. You hear that I'm nauseous and sick to my stomach and the first thing that comes to your mind is cancer?
Judy Angelo
#45. So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.
James Patterson
#46. Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned.
Orson Scott Card
#47. There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.
Al Madrigal
#48. Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads.
Jeff VanderMeer
#49. I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off.
Johanna Sinisalo
#50. The first thing any charlatan needs is nomenclature. A special language. Trappings. That's the true genesis of psychobabble terms such as 'disclosure' and 'in denial.' Every good con man needs plausibility ...
Andrew Vachss
#51. Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!
Alice Hegan Rice
#52. The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it - and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
Upton Sinclair
#53. I was thinking of how, when we think of loss in our life, how our sense of 'home' was the first thing to go. You know, we lose that place of childhood innocence, of feeling protected. And so many of us spend the rest of our lives trying to reclaim that place called home, that life made simple again.
Tabitha Vohn
#54. The koloss he'd attacked did not rise. Its companions stood, looking unconcerned, though their eyes were focused on him. They seemed to want something.
"He ate my horse," Elend said, saying the first thing that came to his clouded mind.
The group of koloss nodded.
Brandon Sanderson
#55. We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Mark Twain
#56. With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.
Wyclef Jean
#57. I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.
Charlie Kaufman
#58. The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
Louis Kahn
#59. I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#60. Prettiest thing I've ever seen."
"Gray,"
"In that getup, in your jeans and tees, in your bikini on the lawnmower, when I open my eyes in the morning and see you next to me, anytime I see you, that's what I think. First thing that comes to mind. Anytime. Every time.
Kristen Ashley
#61. The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.
Seymour Papert
#62. Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.
Brian Tracy
#63. I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.
Melvin Burgess
#64. I pull my iPod out of my backpack and plug it in. It's the first thing I do every time I get in it, like a ritual. Music soothes the soul; at least it helps soothe mine.
Heather Gunter
#65. As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself ... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
Nelson Mandela
#66. The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
Frank Zappa
#67. Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.
Tim Ferriss
#68. The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
Tamora Pierce
#69. The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.
Doug Stanhope
#70. Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.
Andy Leeks
#71. The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting
John Monks
#72. Don't be mad was the first thing he said. He really was terrified, as if the most frightening reaper on the planet was no scarier than a mouse, and yet put him in a tux and it was the Apocalypse.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#73. Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.'
'I got it covered.'
'The DiMarcos might be in town.'
'Actually, they're in jail.'
'All seven of them?'
Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.
Ally Carter
#74. The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.
Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
#75. Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.
Frank Wead
#76. The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
Anne-Marie Duff
#77. Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.
Jacqueline Bisset
#78. What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.
Terry Teachout
#79. In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it ... For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!
Rajneesh
#80. The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
Oscar Wilde
#81. When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
Thomas Mars
#82. Oh, well. Just twist the first thing you can grab, as the High Priest said to the vestal virgin.
Terry Pratchett
#84. The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging ... Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.
William J. Clinton
#85. When they got there, the first thing they saw was the man himself, with a white stick burning away in his mouth, cutting row after row of frosted cabbages. Rowsby Woof was with him, wagging his tail and jumping about in a ridiculous manner. After
Richard Adams
#87. The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted ... That's a pretty scary thought.
Al MacInnis
#88. Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee
#89. The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.
Walter Mosley
#90. If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody ... That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.
K-Maro
#91. A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#92. The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.
George MacDonald
#93. My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor
#94. Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.
Sam Raimi
#95. The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.
Kirk Douglas
#96. I read obituaries first thing in the morning. With a cup of coffee. This is NOT MORBID. Just epic. Maybe it's a way of trying to figure out, before the day begins, what is important. And I am curious about all the little things that make up life. Little?
Maira Kalman
#97. I wish I trusted people more," Jeter has said. "But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism." For that matter, he would add, "I've always been that way," and his first seasons as a Yankee
Joseph Bottum
#98. I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.
Haruki Murakami
#99. Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.
Dale Dauten
#100. If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.
Sara Bareilles
